Tommy Ramone Quotes

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

I was raised on Nirvana and flannel shirts and Rage Against the Machine, and I sort of describe my youth as rebellious and always fighting the system.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.

There will always be an underground.

For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.

People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.