The Monkees Quotes
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My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
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I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.
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The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
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With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
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Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
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The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
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I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.
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I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!
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The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
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Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.
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The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.
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Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
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I'm really a clean-cut kid.
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The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
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One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
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I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
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I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
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Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.
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When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.
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The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...
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Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!
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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
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What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.