Joey Ramone Quotes

I was the first guy to join the band with Hendrix.

A rock band with vocals is what I always wanted to be a part of; in fact, it feels very natural for me.

I was in the band for the first six albums.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I'm always forming bands.

I'm always looking for people to play the songs to.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

Me whole life, me whole childhood, me whole growing up, the competitions I went for and the weekends doing the dancing and all the shows, was to be a singer.

After the Texas Playboys and during that time, I had this band in college that I was in called Thrift Store Cowboys. It was me and a couple other dudes would write the songs.