Tommy Ramone
Related CHRIS CORNELL If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" MARGARET MCMULLAN It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop. CAITLIN ROSE Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with i... ADAN CANTO I thought it was a smart idea. [Wine] was even thinking of just flipping the whole lineup. He was ju... LANCE THOMPSON Opening for The Beatles in San Francisco at the Cow Palace was great. It was terrific fun to do. The... BILL MEDLEY When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede ... BOBBY KEYS In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,... MYSTIKAL I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn'... EVAN DANDO ARTHUR MILLER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United ... CHARLIE HADEN Suddenly, there was a whole group of people in the world looking for a new sound in music, and it pi... HERB DEUTSCH CAITLYN SIEHL I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even t... ADAM RICKITT PETE TOWNSHEND Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd ... DEXTER HOLLAND YANNI JESSE MCCARTNEY This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a... RANDY OWEN CHRIS CORNELL 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginnin... JON LANDAU LITTLE RICHARD MARTINA MCBRIDE J. D. SOUTHER BRAD PITT SAM SMITH CHRISTINA ENGELA It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was ... JIM JARMUSCH MIKE COLTER RAINBOW ROWELL When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a... ATO ESSANDOH When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing.... JOY MANGANO I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came... CHRISTIAN KANE Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it ... MAIKA MONROE WASHED OUT JACK WHITE J. K. SIMMONS JIMMY BUFFETT I was ready to get back into music and classic rock and roll was then making a big comeback. It was ... DON SCHOSSOW LAURA MVULA FAMKE JANSSEN JAMES TAYLOR The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpo... JOEY MCINTYRE CHRISTINA ENGELA IAN ANDERSON SAMANTHA MORTON CHINUA ACHEBE I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,... NAYVADIUS CASH Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about ... ELVIS STOJKO TONY BENNETT I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days. BILL KREUTZMANN When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst... LAUREN DAIGLE I went back and watched the film of it, and it was just heartbreaking. It was such a freak thing; it... MARCUS MCCLINTON When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was s... GILES DULEY PETE TOWNSHEND Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a ... DYLAN WALSH You could buy it over the counter. It was just a whole different world. CINDY MANNES My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma... SKYLAR GREY It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't... ANDREW MCCARTHY I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it wa... ANTON CORBIJN LUCY LIU I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam... LAURA BELL BUNDY I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown... FAB FIVE FREDDY It was terrific. It was spiritual, it was the music, it was everything else that went with it. It wa... BARRY FEINSTEIN I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was ver... MICHAEL RAPAPORT I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ... LINDA EVANS In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It... MEREDITH MONK TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it come... DREW SIDORA PATRICK ROTHFUSS The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was ... WYATT RUSSELL I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music... AUTRE NE VEUT BEN E. KING ADAM DRIVER It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected. TANANARIVE DUE When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, reb... JOEY RAMONE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact th... MADI DIAZ SNOOP DOGG It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in t... THOMAS KELLER You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, &#... DAMIAN LEWIS The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It's something that, whenev... MISTY COPELAND SNOOP DOGG STEPHEN KING KATHLEEN EDWARDS JODI PICOULT When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super dep... GALLANT DEYTH BANGER I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In ma... ERIC WHITACRE I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK JAY-Z GERARD BUTLER KEVIN MITNICK I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of ... MONIE LOVE He was in agony the whole time. I wasn't even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back probl... ED MCCOMISKEY Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it. JEFF LYNNE SCOTT WEILAND
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The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music,... TOMMY RAMONE Mostly I listen to old-time music, some bluegrass, some Americana stuff, too many to name. But of th... TOMMY RAMONE The Ramones were not about having a good time. The closest thing probably was maybe Joey and Dee Dee... TOMMY RAMONE I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian... TOMMY RAMONE In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I ... TOMMY RAMONE Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all. TOMMY RAMONE The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a ... TOMMY RAMONE Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ra... TOMMY RAMONE Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmoni... TOMMY RAMONE The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Bec... TOMMY RAMONE The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, an... TOMMY RAMONE The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn'... TOMMY RAMONE Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a ... TOMMY RAMONE It was never fun being in the Ramones, which is the saddest thing of all, cause it shoulda been fun.... TOMMY RAMONE When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best. JOEY RAMONE Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatur... MELODIE RAMONE Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks... JOHNNY RAMONE The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. JOEY RAMONE I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, reb... JOEY RAMONE I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, a... JOHNNY RAMONE To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying '... JOEY RAMONE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim... JOHNNY RAMONE If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there... PHIL RAMONE Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. JOEY RAMONE I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I s... JOHNNY RAMONE In our position, we've always done well, but we just haven't had that hit yet that put us over the t... JOEY RAMONE We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard, ... Everything was... JOEY RAMONE I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. JOEY RAMONE [Over the years, Florian accumulated quite a collection of rare RAMONES items, including posters, to... MARKY RAMONE That could be the first of many, ... Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one... MARKY RAMONE To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions ... JOEY RAMONE Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana o... JOEY RAMONE We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression. JOHNNY RAMONE If a man can judge success by how many great friends he has, then I have been very successful -- Joh... JOHNNY RAMONE As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they... JOHNNY RAMONE I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me... JOHNNY RAMONE I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me. JOHNNY RAMONE I like you. You're all right. Actually, I like you better meeting you than if somebody had just give... JOEY RAMONE I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the... JOEY RAMONE All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude. JOEY RAMONE I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to... MELODIE RAMONE I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al... JOHNNY RAMONE Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE I learned very early on to try to never let your fans down. It is the fans that have given me a lot ... JOHNNY RAMONE It was a job, and I was just doing my job. JOHNNY RAMONE My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! JOHNNY RAMONE Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spen... JOHNNY RAMONE 'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that poin... JOHNNY RAMONE We always stayed true to what the Ramones are. JOEY RAMONE There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us an... JOEY RAMONE The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. JOEY RAMONE The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. PHIL RAMONE The guy who started the museum in Berlin is a huge RAMONES fan, ... His name is Florian . In fact, e... MARKY RAMONE Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play. JOEY RAMONE Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate. PHIL RAMONE It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or ... MELODIE RAMONE That could be the first of many, ... Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one... MARKY RAMONE In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared ... MELODIE RAMONE I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a ... DEE DEE RAMONE Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it. DEE DEE RAMONE When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, ... DEE DEE RAMONE I used to be a hairdresser. DEE DEE RAMONE I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to th... 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 ne... DEE DEE RAMONE I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ... DEE DEE RAMONE Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro... TOMMY DOUGLAS I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o... TOMMY DOUGLAS TOMMY SHAW In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground yo... TOMMY CALDWELL The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. TOMMY SMOTHERS TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LEE TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY LEE Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. TOMMY ARMOUR TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE TOMMY COOPER TOMMY LEE TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY HENRICH TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY STEELE TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LEE When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. TOMMY SMOTHERS TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY COOPER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY SHAW TOMMY CHONG TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY BOLT TOMMY CHONG Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I&#... 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TOMMY CALDWELL TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY SHAW TOMMY LASORDA If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Co... TOMMY FRANKS TOMMY COOPER TOMMY COOPER TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LASORDA We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quick... TOMMY FRANKS TOMMY HILFIGER TOMMY LASORDA I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a ... TOMMY DOUGLAS TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY COOPER Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync o... TOMMY MOTTOLA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY COOPER Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing... TOMMY RETTIG TOMMY LEE There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and withi... TOMMY MOTTOLA Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. TOMMY DOUGLAS TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LEE TOMMY LASORDA We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. TOMMY TRAN TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LEE TOMMY HILFIGER We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've le... TOMMY FRANKS TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY LASORDA TOMMY CHONG TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE TOMMY LEE The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. TOMMY SMOTHERS TOMMY SHAW
Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important... 
It is a lie. 
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Li... 
It ends or it doesn't.
It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It wa... 
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They s... 
I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was... 
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of... 
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that w... 
My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I dou... 
He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... 
When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that who... 
There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her ... 
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en... 
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro... 
Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s... 
There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&... 
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... 
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came ... 
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g... 
It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... 
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and fo... 
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're tal... 
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a w... 
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... 
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our... 
The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It w... 
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri... 
We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ... 
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do. 
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 
My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful,... 
On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole dif... 
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. 
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Something was missing. I couldn't tell you what it was if you asked but it was off. And if you think... 
Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it... 
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Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitim... 
Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something th... 
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift. 
I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead. 
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I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want ... 
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So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ... 
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and ... 
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. 
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business. 
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offere... 
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine. 
There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and ... 
The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy tra... 
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just... 
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we r... 
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you... 
You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't ... 
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. 
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day. 
So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a lib... 
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me beca... 