Quotes from Peter Tork

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

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.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

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.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

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

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

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.

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

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.

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

Every country has it trade offs.