36 Quotes by Tommy Ramone

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

'Rockaway Beach' is a great song, and so is 'Listen to My Heart.'

Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.

The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

The Ramones are an original rock and roll group of 1975, and their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single.

We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.

Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.