I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

- Johnny Ramone

As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

- Johnny Ramone

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever tha…

- Johnny Ramone

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

- Johnny Ramone

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

- Johnny Ramone

I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

- Johnny Ramone

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

- Johnny Ramone

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

- Johnny Ramone

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

- Johnny Ramone