41 Monkees Quotes

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Famous Monkees Quotes

Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee. — Davy Jones

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. — Henry James

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. - Keith Richards

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. — Keith Richards

Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris? — Frank Zappa

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. — Nicolas Cage

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music. — Neil Young

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. — Spiro T. Agnew

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. — Alice Cooper

I'm going back to my parrot head friends. - Jimmy Buffett

I'm going back to my parrot head friends. — Jimmy Buffett

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group. — Dennis Wilson

Short Monkees Quotes

  • The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out. — Davy Jones
  • Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too. — Micky Dolenz
  • My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened. — Peter Tork
  • We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. — Les Claypool
  • The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year. — Davy Jones
  • It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night. — Peter Tork
  • Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. — Peter Tork
  • The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career. — Davy Jones
  • You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup. — Ben Horowitz

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More Monkees Quotes

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

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

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

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that. — Creed Bratton

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

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

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. — Davy Jones

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! — Frank Zappa

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America. — Page Hamilton

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

The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point? — Davy Jones

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name. — Rob Sheffield

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