The Monkees Quotes
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The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
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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.
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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
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My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.
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Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
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I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
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And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.
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My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
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The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
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People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
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There's an audience for everything.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
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Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.