A biography for Marky Ramonehasn’t been written yet.
“A lot of sneakers look orthopedic - Chuck Taylors don't, and they looked good with the Perfecto black leather jacket and Levi's.”
“You know, in life, some people just don't get along.”
“I never smoked cigarettes, I never did hard drugs. But I love bee pollen capsules.”
“If I do drink milk, it's going to be skim. I always watch my cholesterol. I'm a hypochondriac.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I loved 'Pleasant Dreams.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“I love new technology.”
“Road to Ruin' had different instruments, different sounds. The production was different.”
“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.”
“Dee Dee was very childlike. He had a vivid imagination, and the two books he wrote were 75 per cent fact, 25 per cent fantasy.”
“I don't want to cheat any of my fans. It's not right.”
“Van Halen stood out from the corporate rock clones being churned out monthly by the music industry.”
“I felt that when punk came out, it was overlooked.”
“When Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy and me were inducted to the Hall of Fame, it meant we were with the Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and there you are, the first punk band in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”
“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.”
“I'm basically an independent, Joey was a left-wing liberal, and Johnny was a right-wing conservative.”