Johnny Ramones Quotes

I was driving in Los Angeles, and somebody called out to me, “Hey, you’re driving a Cadillac. How’s that? How are you a punk if you’re driving a Cadillac?” I said, “What the fuck are you talking about? I wrote the book on punk. I decide what’s punk. If I’m driving a Cadillac, it’s punk.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

saw the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium. I took in a bag of rocks to throw at them, snuck them in under my coat, but they were too far away to hit, like out at second base, and I was in the stands, pretty far back. I had to just watch the show.

I saw the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium. I took in a bag of rocks to throw at them, snuck them in under my coat, but they were too far away to hit, like out at second base, and I was in the stands, pretty far back. I had to just watch the show. I

Basically, Sam Phillips recorded Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, and all those other Memphis guys; Chuck Berry played the top two strings; Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show above the waist; the Beatles made all the girls squirm by singing about wanting to hold their “hands”; Ray Davies got lost in a sunset; Pete Townshend smashed his guitar; Brian Wilson heard magic in his head and made it come out of a studio; the Rolling Stones urinated on a garage door; and then (skipping a bit) you’ve got Joey Levine and Chapman-Chinn and Mott the Hoople and Iggy and the Runaways and KISS and the Pink Fairies and Rick Nielsen and Jonathan Richman and Johnny Ramone and Lemmy and the Young brothers and Cook and Jones and Pete Shelley and Feargal Sharkey and Rob Halford … and Foghat. You get what I’m saying. It didn’t happen in a vacuum, but it did happen, and now here we are in the aftermath.

On May 5, Wings flew to Teterboro Airport, in New Jersey, from which they were driven to their second home base, in Manhattan. Paul and Linda spent the evening with Linda’s friend, Danny Fields. Danny had stepped away from his editing and publicity careers and become co-manager, with Linda Stein, of the Ramones, one of the bright lights of the new punk movement. Fields told Paul that the Ramones had taken their name from a bit of Beatles lore—specifically, the stage name Paul used, Paul Ramon, when the Beatles toured Scotland in May 1960 backing the singer Johnny Gentle. “He was, like, ‘You’re kidding!’” Fields recalled. “And I said, ‘No, they really did.’ I don’t think he really believed me.”31 A few weeks later, when Fields visited Paul and