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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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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With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
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The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
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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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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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Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
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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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Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
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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 Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
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Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!
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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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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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I'm really a clean-cut kid.
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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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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
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I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
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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.