The Monkees Quotes
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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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You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.
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Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
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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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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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When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
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Every country has it trade offs.
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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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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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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
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You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
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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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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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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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Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
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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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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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I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
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The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
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Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
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They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
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Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.