Jerry Only Quotes
"The main thing is that this band keeps going."
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"With us, it's a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you."
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"The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll."
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(Related: Dream, Childhood, Punk, Songs)
"My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can."
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(Related: People, Job)
"The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there."
- Jerry Only
(Related: Now, Right)
"There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself."
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(Related: Giving)
"We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on."
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(Related: Lawyers)
"We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite."
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(Related: Beginning)
"We've been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career."
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(Related: Career)
"The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families."
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(Related: Money, Work, Pretty, Support)
"We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed."
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(Related: Kids, Now, Parents)
"I believe in God."
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(Related: God)
"Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time."
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(Related: Money, Music, Time, Politics, People, Pursuit, Songs)
"The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes."
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(Related: Kids, Today)
"Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out."
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"I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie."
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"I might not be Shaq, but I can be Kobe, you know?"
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"I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family."
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(Related: Family, Music, Years)
"If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level."
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(Related: Time)
"If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind."
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(Related: Future, Want)
"It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that."
- Jerry Only
(Related: Money, Care, Play, Want)
"It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction."
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(Related: Time, Direction, First, Writing)
"Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it."
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"Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics."
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(Related: Thought, Songs, Statistics)