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" All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude. "
Punk
Attitude
Makes
" Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. "
Our
Now
Just
" 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. "
Ideas
Like
Better
" Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats. "
Forest
People
Neighborhood
" I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good. "
Me
Drink
Good
" I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. "
Being Happy
Happy
Me
" I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun. "
Rock
Spirit
Like
" I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me. "
Beach
Me
Hearing
" It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan. "
Play
New
New York
" Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great. "
Feel
Guns
Music
" One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.' "
Said
Phone Call
Phone
" Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood. "
Me
Very
Special
" The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. "
Captain
Answer
Ruled
" The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.' "
Runaway
Been
First
" The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. "
Youth
Us
Fountain
" 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. "
Nobody
Never
Good
" The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it. "
Stuff
Going
Learning
" They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger. "
Me
Like
Doing
" To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. "
Because
Me
Music
" To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. "
Me
Saying
Standing
" We always stayed true to what the Ramones are. "
Always
Stayed
Ramones
" Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world. "
Band
World
Think
" When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best. "
Them
Best
Band
" When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time. "
Play
Time
Stop
" When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. "
Kid
Today
Business
" When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves. "
Boots
Pink
Like
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