Marky Ramone Quotes

Marky Ramone

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 15, 1952

I listened to Buddy Rich a lot, and also to guys like Clive Bunker, the original drummer from Jethro Tull. All these guys had a jazz influence, and they didn't want to be called rock drummers. They'd get offended. It's funny.

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In the end, it's the music that matters. The images, the arguments, the petty animosities - people forget that there are a lot of good Ramones songs out there.

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I never smoked cigarettes, I never did hard drugs. But I love bee pollen capsules.

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I don't hate anything about N.Y.C. I would never live anywhere else.

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I had to cook when I left my parents' house at 18. I was hanging out in the punk scene, and didn't have a dime to do anything, so any money I did have I went out and bought food with. Spaghetti was the cheapest thing, it lasted the longest time, and you could eat it cold.

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I acted in 'Rock & Roll High School' and I'm getting acting roles but they're a little strange. I'd like to do a drama.

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I personally think 'Jersey Shore' makes Italians look really bad.

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You gotta understand, the Ramones were greasers. We were Fonzie with longer hair. The greasers and gangs in Brooklyn all wore Chuck Taylors and leather jackets. Either you copied basketball players or you copied greasers.

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Fans would always want us to sign their sneakers. I'd hold the shoes up to my face and stick my nose in 'em and make believe they smelled bad. Sometimes they did.

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Chuck Taylors gave me blisters.

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Ramones' songs are too good not to be played.

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I'm not here to tell anybody what to do. You live and learn.

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One of the reasons I joined the band was because I knew that Tommy had production experience and that he was going to produce the album I was going to be on. The other Ramones used to see me in Richard Hell & the Voidoids and a band I was in called Dust. They used to be in the audience and they liked my playing.

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Basically we would go to places and we would see bands trying to sound like us opening up for us, 1-2-3-4 with the leather jackets and the jeans and the Converse sneakers, which you see everywhere now. We were very grateful and happy that we were at least laying some sort of groundwork for bands that just wanted to play music.

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We always stuck to our guns and we didn't wander off to other genres.

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When we did 'Rock 'N' Roll High School,' that put us almost into the mainstream.

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We had a 15-passenger Ford Econoline. Being in a van touring for 15 years like that, there's no escape. You're in there and you notice idiosyncrasies, you really see the core of the person.

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Bandmates argue, bandmates make up. Sometimes there are members that don't get along, sometimes they become best of friends.

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I'm friends with conservatives, I just don't agree with their politics, that's all.

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Some people were raised differently than others, but when you start making fun of people's religion, it can become dangerous. That's how stuff got started in a lot of cases in history.

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