The Monkees Quotes
-
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
-
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.
-
They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
-
Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.
-
Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
-
Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.
-
Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain...
-
Yes, I am a good singer.
-
The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
-
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.
-
I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
-
Don't object so much, you'll live longer.
-
Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.
-
If you love music, than you can play music.
-
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.
-
Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
-
The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
-
The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.
-
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
-
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.
-
Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.
-
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.
-
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
-
First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.