Best 33 quotes of Dee Dee Ramone on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

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

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 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 haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

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 loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

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

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.

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.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

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

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 used to be a hairdresser.

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've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

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.

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.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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