The Monkees Quotes
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Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
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Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
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Every country has it trade offs.
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Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.
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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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What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
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You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
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Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.
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What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.
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I don't need any more awards.
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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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When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
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I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.
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The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
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The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
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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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The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
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Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
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We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
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I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.
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I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.