Top 24 Quotes by Dee Dee Ramone

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

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

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.

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.

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.

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

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 used to be a hairdresser.

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

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