Jerry Only Quotes

• The main thing is that this band keeps going.

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• 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.

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• I might not be Shaq, but I can be Kobe, you know?

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• My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

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• 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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• 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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• With us, it’s a very specific audience. If you like steak, this is it for you.

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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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• 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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• I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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• 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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• We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids’ CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

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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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• 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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• We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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• 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.

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• We’re gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old ’50’s B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

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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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• I believe in God.

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• We’ve been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career.

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Jerry Only (25)

Birth:	21st April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bassist, Singer

About

Jerry Only was born in Lodi, New Jersey, USA. He is an American musician and singer, well known as the bassist for the Misfits from 1977-1983 and later the vocalist as well. Though Glenn Danzig wrote every song, Jerry sued to be able to perform under the name The Misfits.

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