The Monkees Quotes
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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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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
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Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
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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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There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
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Now DVD can represent more income than the box office - and typically does.
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If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.
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I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
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I wanted to be a jockey.
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Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.
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I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.
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There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.
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Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.
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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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When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.
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James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre...
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I am more of an old black and white movies fan.
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I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.
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People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
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The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
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Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
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It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.