The Monkees Quotes
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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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Multimedia scares me off.
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The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
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Every country has it trade offs.
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
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Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
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Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
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You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.
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There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
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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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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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You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.
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You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.
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When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
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Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.
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The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
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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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They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
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As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
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I don't need any more awards.
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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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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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We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.