The thing about school is that if you’re forced into learning stuff, you’re not going to be into it. Joey Ramone Read Quote
I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing ‘Surfin’ U.S.A.,’ I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me. Joey Ramone Read Quote
They asked me to sing – actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn’t like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger. Joey Ramone Read Quote
One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, ‘Yeah.’ Joey Ramone Read Quote
It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan. Joey Ramone Read Quote
When I was hitching, I’d be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves. Joey Ramone Read Quote
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. Joey Ramone Read Quote
Everybody’s just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. Joey Ramone Read Quote
