Quotes About Influence

The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.

We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.

I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we were doing. The Ramones were doing it. We were doing it. The Buzzcocks, all those bands.

My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

I was very political when JFK ran.

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.

I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a child, I knew who they were, and knew the culture of it, what they meant.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.

Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table.