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 More Quotes by Joey Ramone More Quotes From Joey Ramone For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul. Joey Ramone passion real heart Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play Joey Ramone play life Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything. Joey Ramone adventure What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live. Joey Ramone rocks real school To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. Joey Ramone punk individual who-i-am Lack of skill dictates economy of style. Joey Ramone economy style skills I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it. Joey Ramone blow adventure thinking If your not in it you're out of it. Joey Ramone ifs I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. Joey Ramone just-being being-happy ideas When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. Joey Ramone growing-up frustration kids All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude. Joey Ramone punk attitude I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'. Joey Ramone hate blow song Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. Joey Ramone rock-n-roll rocks special Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back. Joey Ramone wells weight hair To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. Joey Ramone punk emotion people We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be. Joey Ramone junk groups bored The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. Joey Ramone ramones fountain youth Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. Joey Ramone marriage dying years Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Joey Ramone giving-up unique believe I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun. Joey Ramone rocks fun mean
