Dee Dee Ramone Quotes
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I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.
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I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.
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I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
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Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I used to be a hairdresser.
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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.
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I like California a lot more than New York these days.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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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.
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I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.
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I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
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The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.
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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.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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It's very hard to tour.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
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When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'
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I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
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I think it would be nice to be a prince.
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I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
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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.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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