Tommy Ramone quote: "The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really."

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 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

It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was ...
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

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
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

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
TOMMY CHONG

I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ...
TOMMY LEE

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want ...
TOMMY HILFIGER

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately...
TOMMY LEE

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
TOMMY ARMOUR

I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA sys...
TOMMY LEE

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool ...
TOMMY LEE

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TOMMY COOPER

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a to...
TOMMY LEE

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and ...
TOMMY LASORDA

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
TOMMY LASORDA

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
TOMMY HENRICH

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's beca...
TOMMY LASORDA

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offere...
TOMMY STEELE

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.
TOMMY LASORDA

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
TOMMY LEE

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
TOMMY SMOTHERS

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and ...
TOMMY LASORDA

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the wind...
TOMMY COOPER

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy tra...
TOMMY HILFIGER

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched re...
TOMMY SHAW

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we r...
TOMMY CHONG

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.
TOMMY HILFIGER

We like to believe our fashion is growing.
TOMMY HILFIGER

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are ...
TOMMY HILFIGER

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we...
TOMMY HILFIGER

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could...
TOMMY HILFIGER

If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the s...
TOMMY HILFIGER

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or finan...
TOMMY HILFIGER

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
TOMMY HILFIGER

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy a...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Ju...
TOMMY HILFIGER

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.
TOMMY HILFIGER

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to...
TOMMY HILFIGER

You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
TOMMY HILFIGER

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right...
TOMMY HILFIGER

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.
TOMMY HILFIGER

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.
TOMMY HILFIGER

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.
TOMMY HILFIGER

Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge.
TOMMY HILFIGER

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly gro...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.
TOMMY HILFIGER

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you...
TOMMY BOLT

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went ...
TOMMY CHONG

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I&#...
TOMMY MOTTOLA

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't ...
TOMMY CHONG

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.
TOMMY COOPER

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.
TOMMY LEE

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
TOMMY SHAW

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
TOMMY LASORDA

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
TOMMY LASORDA

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possibl...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He sai...
TOMMY COOPER

When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that...
TOMMY LASORDA

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.
TOMMY LASORDA

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame....
TOMMY LASORDA

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we&...
TOMMY LASORDA

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
TOMMY LASORDA

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
TOMMY LASORDA

I bleed Dodger blue!
TOMMY LASORDA

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
TOMMY LASORDA

You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.
TOMMY LASORDA

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
TOMMY LASORDA

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but ...
TOMMY LASORDA

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask ...
TOMMY LASORDA

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure,...
TOMMY LASORDA

If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
TOMMY LASORDA

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the...
TOMMY LASORDA

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happ...
TOMMY LASORDA

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.
TOMMY LASORDA

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you ...
TOMMY LASORDA

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
TOMMY LASORDA

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's tru...
TOMMY TRAN

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
TOMMY CHONG

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a lib...
TOMMY COOPER

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, e...
TOMMY WISEAU

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing....
TOMMY CHONG

The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for...
TOMMY CALDWELL

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you ...
TOMMY CALDWELL

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had st...
TOMMY CALDWELL

When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was ...
TOMMY LASORDA

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to pla...
TOMMY SHAW

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
TOMMY LASORDA

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Co...
TOMMY FRANKS

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
TOMMY COOPER

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around ...
TOMMY COOPER

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
TOMMY CHONG

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
TOMMY LASORDA

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it...
TOMMY CHONG

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans,...
TOMMY CHONG

Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
TOMMY LASORDA

We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quick...
TOMMY FRANKS

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early...
TOMMY HILFIGER

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pu...
TOMMY LASORDA

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a ...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and t...
TOMMY LASORDA

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.
TOMMY CHONG

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age....
TOMMY COOPER

Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync o...
TOMMY MOTTOLA

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there al...
TOMMY LASORDA

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. T...
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

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.
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

The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. I...
TOMMY LEE

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved f...
TOMMY LEE

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then ...
TOMMY LASORDA

My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean i...
TOMMY LEE

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's be...
TOMMY LASORDA

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
TOMMY TRAN

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's bec...
TOMMY LASORDA

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.
TOMMY LASORDA

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and oth...
TOMMY LEE

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other...
TOMMY HILFIGER

We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've le...
TOMMY FRANKS

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
TOMMY LASORDA

When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger....
TOMMY LASORDA

The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.
TOMMY CHONG

Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
TOMMY LEE

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back t...
TOMMY LEE

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.
TOMMY LEE

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
TOMMY SMOTHERS

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me beca...
TOMMY SHAW

The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really.

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Tommy Ramone

The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really.

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