Monkees Quotes

#1. It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

Peter Tork

#2. Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.

Peter Tork

#3. We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

Les Claypool

#4. The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

Davy Jones

#5. I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

Andy Partridge

#6. When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

Tom Stoppard

#7. The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

Peter Tork

#8. My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'

Edward Kitsis

#9. During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

Davy Jones

#10. The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

Davy Jones

#11. The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.

Micky Dolenz

#12. When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

Gary Numan

#13. The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.

Davy Jones

#14. I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

Jane Wiedlin

#15. My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

Peter Tork

#16. Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

Peter Tork

#17. (The Skrull Beatles discuss their future.)
"So when this is all over, are we still gonna be the Skrull Beatles then?"
"I quite fancy being the Skrull Monkees for a bit."
"The dialogue's easier."
"As long as I get to be Peter Tork.

Paul Cornell

#18. The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Peter Tork

#19. Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

Micky Dolenz

#20. Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.

Davy Jones

#21. The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

Davy Jones

#22. You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...

Ben Horowitz

#23. 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.

Micky Dolenz

#24. So...your name means Mr.Underwear."
-Frank

Rick Riordan

#25. Beautiful music stimulates beautiful thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

Eric Maisel

#27. What you're seeking is seeking you.

Rumi

#28. That God is the sum of all created things. Nature and God are one, so that whoever touches a leaf or a stone touches God. That is of course to degrade the glory of the incorruptible Deity and, in an effort to make all things divine, banish all divinity from the world entirely.

A.W. Tozer

#29. I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."

Ishmael Reed

#30. I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

Jami Attenberg

#31. Hello, companion," said Magnus.
The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.
"I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.

Cassandra Clare

#32. I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

Emmanuelle Beart

#33. (the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)

Marisha Pessl

#34. Lamia was not sure whether she liked Leyla. She was too quiet, too knowing, her eyes were always probing, she felt, and she was clearly a bad influence on Tala, enticing her to museums and libraries when she should be shopping.

Shamim Sarif