The Monkees Quotes
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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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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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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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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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In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
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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 did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
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There's an audience for everything.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.
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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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To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!
