Dee Dee Ramone Quotes

• When I got into rap I didn’t exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

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• It was sad when Sid Vicious died… I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

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• I’m really lucky I’m still around. Everybody expected me to die next… But it was always someone else instead of me.

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• I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn’t trying to shove it down anybody’s throats.

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• I didn’t have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

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• Billboard called my solo album, ‘Standing In The Spotlight,’ a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

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• We didn’t do an American tour because it I know it wouldn’t go down well.

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• The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

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• Ricky Nelson… I couldn’t believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

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• Metallica – they’re so demonic, they’re crazy, I don’t know how they do it.

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• It’s very expensive to bring a band to New York.

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• I’d like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

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• I started listening to and playing other music in the ’90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

   

   

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• I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it’s hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

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• I like California a lot more than New York these days.

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• I haven’t done rap… I can’t do that too well.

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• I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

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Birth:	18th September, 1951
Death:	5th June, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bassist, Lyricist

About

Dee Dee Ramone was born in Fort Lee, Virginia. He was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, songwriter and bassist for punk rock band the Ramones. He would be the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 until 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand-new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones.

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