Joey Ramone
Joey Ramone
Jeffrey Ross Hyman, known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician and singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones. Joey Ramone's image, voice, and tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth19 May 1951
CountryUnited States of America
attitude punk
All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.
people emotion punk
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
who-i-am punk individual
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
band kept
We're the only band that kept the guts, and kept the excitement, and kept the belief, you know. We never sidetracked. We never went the way of the Clash, and never wanted to get into the discotheques that bad.
kinda
Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
everybody good kinda nobody takes
There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
given meeting somebody
I like you. You're all right. Actually, I like you better meeting you than if somebody had just given me your record.
decided elevator form found guys last met writer
I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band.
break hit
In our position, we've always done well, but we just haven't had that hit yet that put us over the top. We always break even.
thinking rocks world
Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.
country mtv bridges
For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
nice inspiration thinking
I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.
eagles captains answers
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.