The Monkees Quotes
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There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
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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.
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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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I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
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It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.
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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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Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.
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Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.
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I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.
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Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
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I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.
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In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
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You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.
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Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.
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The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall - it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.
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The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
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Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
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Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.
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Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.
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Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.
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You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
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Every country has it trade offs.
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After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.