Marky Ramone Quotes

Marky Ramone

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 15, 1952

Me and Johnny Thunders had the same birthday. We would always celebrate in a club called Max's Kansas City. We were very close friends at Max's Kansas City and CBGBs, where we all hung out.

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Punk rock is being honest, believing in yourself and doing what you gotta do. That's all.

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I don't want to cheat any of my fans. It's not right.

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I like The Beatles a lot so Ringo is one of my favourites, along with Keith Moon and John Bonham.

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I have about 300 1950s sci-fi posters that are collectible and rare. And 'Godzilla,' when I was little, was an import from Japan. I thought it was a very charming movie. Well, not at the time. I thought it was really scary at the time, but it was great.

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A lot of sneakers look orthopedic - Chuck Taylors don't, and they looked good with the Perfecto black leather jacket and Levi's.

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The hardest thing to do is to create your own style. And I don't think styles are 'created' - they just come to you. They just develop into what you are. It seeps into it. When you start thinking, 'I want to have my own style,' it's not happening. It's gotta come through experience.

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I'm a Democrat, Joey was a Democrat. Johnny and Dee Dee were staunch, avid right wing conservative fanatics. Our political views were definitely different.

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They're for the rich and not the little guy. In my opinion, the conservatives are just about money.

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Van Halen stood out from the corporate rock clones being churned out monthly by the music industry.

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When you're in the band, in the van with them, there's a lot more you know and can put pen to paper. I've never had any problem with my memory, and I did have these composition notebooks, like you use in school, that I wrote in. I have the largest collection of videos of the band, 400 8 and Hi8 videos.

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Mental' was faster than most Ramones songs - and faster than most songs, period. It felt like what it was about: sitting in a hospital bed and losing your mind.

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I didn't want the original lineup of the Ramones to break up. I was a fan.

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My favorite song on the Road to Ruin demo was 'I Wanna Be Sedated.' It was catchy and huge even in stripped-down form on a cheap cassette tape. It was pop but without sacrificing hardness.

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I'm grateful to be alive.

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I loved 'Pleasant Dreams.'

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Joey and Johnny didn't get along too well. That's unfortunate. But like a lot of businesses, bands and brothers, a lot of people don't get along.

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I hated 'Subterranean Jungle.'

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Richie Reinhardt, who was only in the band four years, deserted the group. You don't do that when a band has a tour set up. If you want to negotiate, there are ways to do it maturely. They had 17 shows set up. They called Clem Burke up from Blondie. But he's not right for The Ramones; he's great in Blondie.

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I think more people wanted to sound like the Ramones than The Velvet Underground. So many bands try to imitate us. Anywhere I go in the world, I hear it.

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