The Monkees Quotes
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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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I like to listen the blues and some classical.
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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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And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
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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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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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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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In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
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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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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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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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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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I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.
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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.
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There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.
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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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No matter how tired I am, I can only sleep for four hours at a time.
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People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.
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I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.
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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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Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.
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I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
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Every country has it trade offs.