Marky Ramone Quotes

Marky Ramone

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 15, 1952

I did five albums before I joined the Ramones.

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It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to jazz drummers, and they played with their wrists, fast like that. So I was able to do it right away.

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Life definitely throws curve balls at you.

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I'm basically an independent, Joey was a left-wing liberal, and Johnny was a right-wing conservative.

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We live in America, thank God, and we have our choice to vote for who we want to.

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When I was in high school, I liked hard rock.

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I was hanging out in New York City and started getting into the new sounds that were being created, and started playing with Richard Hell and the Voidoids on their debut album 'Blank Generation.' They were signed to the same company as The Ramones - Sire, which is how we became friendly.

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I learned to pace myself, even back then when I was young. It's like being an athlete; you need to rehearse and exercise and be in good shape.

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I felt that in certain situations, a lot of people were ignoring the AIDS issue.

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My grandfather was a chef at the Copacabana, and he ended up being a chef at the 21 Club - a master chef in both places. 21 was mainly like bankers, really, really, really upscale. Copacabana was basically entertainment: Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke, The Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra.

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We'd go up on the roofs of buildings and wrap up sheets and pillows with string and wire. We would just throw those dummies off the fourth-floor walk-up buildings - those were always the easiest ones to get up on the roof. As the dummy went down, we would scream. And then people would flip. And drop their groceries.

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You could say Iggy and the Stooges were garage. You could say the Kinks helped start heavy metal with that guitar sound Dave Davies had. There were punk elements in these groups, but the Ramones solidified it.

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I was happy to be asked twice to be in one of the greatest bands in the world.

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Road to Ruin' had different instruments, different sounds. The production was different.

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When the whole CBGB scene began, it was in reaction to where rock 'n' roll was going.

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I liked Eddie Van Halen, when he first came out, because he was doing something original.

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Rock was getting too complicated, too fused - everything was jazz-rock, country-rock, progressive-rock, this-rock and that-rock, and it was all so bland, so predictable.

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You've got these dance bands that, when you see them live, everything's on tape. It might not even be them singing, and that's the lowest you can go.

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I'm an East Coast kind of guy, so I could never move to California.

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Despite not having big hits while we were performing, over the years, we've ended up selling a lot of records.

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