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Don't object so much, you'll live longer.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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.
Davy Jones The Monkees
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
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.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
Davy Jones The Monkees -
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.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
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.
Davy Jones The Monkees -
I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
Davy Jones The Monkees
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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
Davy Jones The Monkees -
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
Davy Jones The Monkees -
Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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.
Davy Jones The Monkees
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The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??
Micky Dolenz The Monkees
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First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
Yes, I am a good singer.
Peter Tork The Monkees -
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.
Michael Nesmith The Monkees -
Writing is a great love of mine.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees