The Monkees Quotes
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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 Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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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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Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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There's an audience for everything.
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
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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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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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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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I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.
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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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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
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No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
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Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
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To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!