The Monkees Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
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Multimedia scares me off.
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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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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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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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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
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They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
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Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
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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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When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
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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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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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Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.
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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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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'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 Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.