Dee Dee Ramone Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.”

“I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.”

“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.”

“I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.”

“Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.”

“Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.”