Tommy Ramone quotes

“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. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody.”
-- Tommy Ramone

Source : Ramones Facebook page, www.facebook.com. 1978.

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“One of the reasons that the Ramones were so unique and original was that they were four original, unique people.”
-- Tommy Ramone

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“Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is written in his own actual words, so the reader gets an insight into what made him the unique, charismatic and exciting individual that he was. It also gives a great view of The Ramones from Johnny's perspective.”
-- Tommy Ramone

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“Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.”
-- Tommy Ramone

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“We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.”
-- Tommy Ramone

Source : "Ramones: 'We play short songs for people who don't have a lot of spare time' - interview from the vaults" by Alan Betrock, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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“Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.”
-- Tommy Ramone

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.”

“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”

“I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.”

“That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.”

“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

“I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.”

“Am I missing an eyebrow?”

“The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....”