Johnny Ramistella famous quotes

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But I always loved songs with great lyrics.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Song #Great Lyric
The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Games #Balls #Internet
The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Firsts
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Lines #Come Up
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Guitar #Firsts
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Eight #Gone #Months
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Thinking #Cities #Soul
About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Two #Months #Truck
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#People #Sick #Mud
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Night #Eight #Downtown
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Bass #Used #Concerts
Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Evil #Mind #Faces
That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Baby #Rejection #Guy
All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Summer #Lonely #Heart
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#New Orleans #Gigs #Jimmy
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#Song #Writing #Redneck
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.
-- Johnny Ramistella

#People #Smoking #Might

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