Quotes About Monkees

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

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!

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.

Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.

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

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

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.

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

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.

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.

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.