“Danny Fields is looking back through the photographs he took of the Ramones, which have been compiled in a new, wonderful book which also contains letters, notes and witty, touching anecdotes about his time with the band.”

“You could make a convincing case that, without Danny Fields, punk rock would not have happened.”

“They were a fluke quartet—but they were beginning with an awareness of presentation. They worked it all out. They all took the same last name.”

“The word irony is overused, but you can’t overuse it with the Ramones because everything with them is ironic.”