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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk. -- Eddie Vedder
The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. -- Joey Ramone
Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point. -- Johnny Ramone
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. -- Henry Rollins
My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs. -- Johnny Ramone
I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones. -- Johnny Ramone
Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old. -- Nikki Sixx
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. -- Henry Rollins
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones. -- Dee Dee Ramone
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol. -- Dee Dee Ramone
The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs. -- Dee Dee Ramone
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite. -- Gerald Caiafa
AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years. -- Chuck Eddy
One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people. -- Tommy Ramone
Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play. -- Rick Nielsen
Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street. -- Dave Grohl
I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads. -- Debbie Harry
Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television. -- Michael Stipe
I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for. -- Shingai Shoniwa
Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.' -- Jeff Ament
We always stayed true to what the Ramones are. -- Joey Ramone
It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs. -- Mike Lowry
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie. -- Gerald Caiafa
I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie. -- Gerald Caiafa
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite. -- Gerald Caiafa
We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together. -- Santiago Durango
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan. -- Scott Ian
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. -- Jim Jarmusch
I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets. -- Perry Farrell
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. -- Ezra Koenig
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. -- David Byrne
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols -- David Byrne
It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody. -- Glenn Danzig
There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. -- Joey Ramone
The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there. -- Jerry Only
Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play. -- Arto Lindsay
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs. -- Eddie Vedder
I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. -- Dee Dee Ramone
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial. -- Iggy Pop
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger. -- Imelda May
Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones. -- Dexter Holland
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool. -- Rachel Cohn
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it. -- Neil Gaiman
I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music. -- Jeff Ament
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best. -- Giorgio Moroder
Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage. -- Chris Cornell
For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken. -- Johnny Ramone
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt. -- Eddie Vedder
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones. -- Alan Rickman

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