Quotes & Sayings About The Monkees

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

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. — Peter Tork

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

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

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ... — Ben Horowitz

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

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

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

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. — Les Claypool

With relish, Kevin explained the boy's claim to fame: An elderly couple in an adjacent apartment had complained about how loudly he played his CDs of the Monkees at three in the morning. The next weekend, the couple's daughter discovered her parents in their bed, slit from crotch to throat. "That's appalling," I said. "I can't believe anyone still listens to the Monkees. — Lionel Shriver

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 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

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

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

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened. — Peter Tork

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career. — Davy Jones

I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!' — Marie Helvin

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

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

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

The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year. — Davy Jones

My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.' — Edward Kitsis

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out. — Davy Jones

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

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

Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too. — Micky Dolenz