Marky Ramone Quotes

Marky Ramone

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 15, 1952

The first big trip that I remember was going from the East Coast to the West Coast with my parents. They owned a VW camper and we went cross-country. I was about 11 and had fun. My parents liked the outdoors a lot.

Marky Ramone

There's too many bands going out there with one original member and calling it by the original name.

Marky Ramone

When I was on Howard Stern, he would sometimes take me aside and tell me I had a good voice for radio.

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I like to bike ride a lot just around where I live in Brooklyn Heights.

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Before I was in the band, I was a bricklayer, a cement mixer and a messenger. I did a lot of odds and ends, and I always worked on cars.

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We were always into '60s songs, it's no new thing to us.

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People should try to create a style within their own era.

Marky Ramone

Anybody who votes the way they vote, that's their business.

Marky Ramone

I have my idiosyncrasies like everyone else. If you're gonna talk about other people, you're going to have to talk about yourself. You're going to have to be honest about yourself.

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Those electric albums that Dylan did from '65 to '67 are great. That's the period I like Dylan. I think Television would've sounded a lot more like that if they put aside their disagreements and continued.

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If I do drink milk, it's going to be skim. I always watch my cholesterol. I'm a hypochondriac.

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My favorite food is Indian. I love chicken vindaloo because it's so hot it cleans you out. I'm a health nut. Me and Dee Dee Ramone, when he was alive, we would eat at this Indian restaurant and we would walk out of there in the winter sweating and get frozen streaks on our hair. Icicles. That's how we knew it did its job.

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I like to see what's on TV before I go to sleep.

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All my life I've played 4/4, 2/4. Jazz has a different time signature. It's a lot harder. It's interesting.

Marky Ramone

My father wanted the high school diploma on the wall, so I got that and then started hanging out in New York in the punk scene.

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Yeah, I saw KISS a few times in the early days. They weren't developed yet, but eventually they got their visual look down and got a lot tighter. But I always thought their songs were really good. They had good hooks; they weren't too long, and their lyrical content appealed to youth - quite like the Ramones.

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My parents took me to the first March on Washington, the first big march for civil rights, in '63. So I was raised in a family where it doesn't matter what color you are or what religion you are as long as you're a good person.

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When you make fun of people just to get a laugh, it can become very dangerous.

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The Ramones appealed to youth with their energy and lyrical content, and that's why it evolves the longevity of the group.

Marky Ramone

A fan once gave me an oil painting of myself. I couldn't believe he had taken that much effort and time to do that. It was very cool.

Marky Ramone