The Monkees Quotes
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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.
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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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Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
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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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My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
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The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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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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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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There's an audience for everything.
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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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It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
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And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.
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I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
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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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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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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
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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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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.
