Joey Ramone Quotes

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

I'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'

I love Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, and The Supremes, because I'm kind of old-school at heart.

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.

Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s blaring out the songs of Neil Diamond, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.