66 Quotes by Dee Dee Ramone

I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don’t want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don’t know.

I’ve always liked extreme performers; I don’t think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener – they mean so much and they feel so significant.

It’s very expensive to bring a band to New York.

Progression is important. I’m always going to play music in the general vein of rock’n’roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn’t want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn’t a contradiction to me.

There’s a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don’t: the fact that you’re performing and you care about how it comes across.

I’ve always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

I couldn’t do rap. I was trying. I don’t know how. I’m not good enough to know.