Quotes from Joey Ramone

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.