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I did five albums before I joined the Ramones.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
Life definitely throws curve balls at you.Collection: Marky
I'm basically an independent, Joey was a left-wing liberal, and Johnny was a right-wing conservative.Collection: Marky
We live in America, thank God, and we have our choice to vote for who we want to.Collection: Marky
When I was in high school, I liked hard rock.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
I felt that in certain situations, a lot of people were ignoring the AIDS issue.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
I was happy to be asked twice to be in one of the greatest bands in the world.Collection: Marky
Road to Ruin' had different instruments, different sounds. The production was different.Collection: Marky
When the whole CBGB scene began, it was in reaction to where rock 'n' roll was going.Collection: Marky
I liked Eddie Van Halen, when he first came out, because he was doing something original.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
I'm an East Coast kind of guy, so I could never move to California.Collection: Marky
Despite not having big hits while we were performing, over the years, we've ended up selling a lot of records.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
There's too many bands going out there with one original member and calling it by the original name.Collection: Marky
When I was on Howard Stern, he would sometimes take me aside and tell me I had a good voice for radio.Collection: Marky
I like to bike ride a lot just around where I live in Brooklyn Heights.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
We were always into '60s songs, it's no new thing to us.Collection: Marky
People should try to create a style within their own era.Collection: Marky
Anybody who votes the way they vote, that's their business.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
If I do drink milk, it's going to be skim. I always watch my cholesterol. I'm a hypochondriac.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
I like to see what's on TV before I go to sleep.Collection: Marky
All my life I've played 4/4, 2/4. Jazz has a different time signature. It's a lot harder. It's interesting.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky
When you make fun of people just to get a laugh, it can become very dangerous.Collection: Marky
The Ramones appealed to youth with their energy and lyrical content, and that's why it evolves the longevity of the group.Collection: Marky
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.Collection: Marky