Dee Dee Ramone Quotes

I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.

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

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next ... But it was always someone else instead of me.

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

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 didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

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 get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

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

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.

We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

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

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I am an old punk.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

It was sad when Sid Vicious died ... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

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