Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
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.
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
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.
Yes, I am a good singer.
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.
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.
One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees set on the same night.
I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.
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.
Every country has it trade offs.
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
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 four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
I like to listen the blues and some classical.
Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!
There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.
Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
