The Monkees Quotes
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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 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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The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
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My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
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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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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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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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The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.
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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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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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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.
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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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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter 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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To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!
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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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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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It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.
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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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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.