Rock & Roll Acting School

I liked a stage show and to me The Ramones were very theatrical because they didn’t move. You had all these guys doing theatrical stuff that was so excessive, yet The Ramones were getting more out of Joey moving his leg. They would just stand still. Joey would move his leg. Johnny would jump once or twice and they would just make the right moves. It was minimal, the whole approach. It was the way they dressed, the way they moved. It was the music. They had everything: the image, the sound, the lyrics. They were the whole package. I’d never seen any band that had everything together like that.
—John Holmstrom, quoted in On the Road With The Ramones by Monte A. Melnick and Frank Meyer (MJF Books, 2003)