Quotes About The Monkees

#1. 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

#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. 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

#6. 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

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

Edward Kitsis

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

Davy Jones

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

Micky Dolenz

#10. 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

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

Davy Jones

#12. 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

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

Peter Tork

#14. 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

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

Micky Dolenz

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

Davy Jones

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

Ben Horowitz

#18. 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

#19. He got up in front of the room and started telling us that we were doing things all wrong. He told us we should be winning their hearts and minds instead of killing them.

Chris Kyle

#20. 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

#21. Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.

Dean Kamen

#22. During the night we must wait for the light.

Francis De Sales

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

Davy Jones

#24. Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Sun Tzu

#25. I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

Paul Strand

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

Peter Tork

#27. (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

#28. Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.

Sergei Lavrov

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

Peter Tork