Tommy Ramone Quotes

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

You expressed yourself by looking different from other people. We even looked different from each other. But among the Exis, there was a close group of us, Klaus Voormann, Jurgen Wollmer and me. Klaus and I always wore black.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

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 was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.

There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.

The longer I stay here the better I like it, there are but very few old families here they are mostly young families just starting in life the same as we are and I find them very generous indeed. we will all be poor here together and grow up together and I hope be happy together

It sounds corny to say, but we're like a family. That experience for all of us really created a bond... The 'West Side Story' experience, it really is a family. There's a closeness that has continued.

Drag allows people to celebrate their individuality, together.

We were together; we were a group; we were a team; we wanted people to love Styx.

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

I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

You can't hate the person next to you when you're laughing and dancing together.

I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together - all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.

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.

With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death