The best Monkees quotes can't go on this page, you realize... ;)
"Love Is Understanding"
Don't you know that this is true?
"Don't worry, if the whole world is destroyed, I'll take responsibilty!"
Perfect.
"They didn't want us smoking dope on the stage, so we smoked back there [in the black box] where it
was air conditioned. I ate lunch there, but I never did get it on with anybody."
I wonder if he ate tuna fish sandwiches, on soft white bread.
"For the other guys, it's an act of love and a complete aesthetic expression. I'm the crass whore. OK?"
Yeah, like we don't already know.
"Don't quit just before the miracle."
I wonder if this is related to the "rehab is for quiters" quote.
"The only thing about it, man, is that a minute is entirely too long for us to tell everything we've got on
our minds."
My favorite wise-ass.
"Save the Texas Prairie Chicken".
Of course.
"With my paranoia I need this abuse."
Yes... yes...
"Defending my honor, isn't that groovy? A bunch of long haired weirdos and some vicious people."
(Princess Gwen)
Yup, my life too.
"Due to a lack of interest, tomorrow has been cancelled."
How erganomic.
"Because baby, in the final analysis, love is POWER."
There's my novel.
"Periodically it comes to my mind that there is no such thing as a naked screwdriver."
Why isn't Nez thinking more with his crotch? Then he'd understand.
"I think we oughta go on a National Monkees Love Something Ugly This Week."
Genius.
"We just have to show up, act natural, not use bad language and not be drunk."
I plan on changing that.
"Don't do that."
Alright, so he wasn't the *only* one to say it, but he said it best.
"Young people just aren't typical anything."
Michael, that is so touching.
"Yeah I gotta tell ya, I was standing at a place we were playing. We were backstage and it's like two
minutes before we're s'posed to go on. And this guy walks up to me, he's got a, he's a reporter you know,
like that, anyway. I'm standing with my guitar over my back... He walks up to me and says, 'Is it true that
you don't play your own instruments?' I said, 'Wait a minute! I'm fixin' to walk out there in front of fifteen
thousand people, man. If I don't play my own instruments I'm in a lotta trouble!'"
Yeah, really.
"I am the Texas blues, brown-wool seat covers that soak up the root beer and leave a sticky stain."
And I am very much consumed in this sentance.
"A man in love has the strength of thousands."
Damn straight.
"A medival fair. It's like a love-in."
I'd like to see one of those.
"Young people have become bored and confused by the Established Church. There are so many conflicting
dogmans and religions all claiming that they are right and the other is wrong. Someone should make them
put their heads together and come up with a new religion acceptable to all."
Shit, isn't that what...?
"I think I'd make a very nice English gin."
Oh yes, oh yes...
"I'd be kissing one girl, going to another saying 'wait a minute, I'll be with you in a second.'
Mike was on the phone making business calls and yelling at everyone;"[of course he was]
"Peter was saying 'more brown
rice please, all over my nose so I can't breathe but can still read the Maharishi;' Micky was going
his 'aarghbrryesnowhyhowcomegozapwowupdownmorelessaargh' thing, burning off energy."
Dramatic Re-enactment.
"Look at that rock, it's a fake rock. Look at that tree, it's a fake tree. Look at that girl... oh yeah."
Heh heh.
"Now that's a trip."
It sure is.
"The Indians had the idea. They built everything in a circle so nobody would be left out-- no corners."
He's such a beautiful man for saying this.
"I'll do my impression of Davy Jones: ga ga goo goo..."
Pppssssssttttttt.
"Badges. We don't need no stinkin badges!"
I just love this quote, exactly how he says it.
"I love you twice as much on Friday because I want the weekend off."
It took years for this to make any kind of sense to me.
"Please, no fawning... Why must they always fawn?"
Mmmmm.
"Please! No morals!!"
Yeah, really.
"I'd like to buy big city blocks of building and plant orange groves."
Buy out where your past life orange groves used to be.
Monkees and Bob:
Bob: You've reached a certain amount of success. If that was suddenly, like, taken away, wiped out, where would you be today?
Peter: I'd go back to the Village and be a folk singer.
Bob: How about you, Davy?
Davy: I'd go back to the Village and watch him be a folk singer.
Bob: Mike?
Mike: I'd probably go burn the Village.
Of course you would Mike. Of course you would.
Mike and Bob:
Mike: Hey, I gotta tell you of a very freaky idea.
Bob Rafelson: What?
Mike: That, a local, uh, guys-- uh, a local gang--
gang of guys is
propogating now.
Bob: What's that?
Mike: And that is digging things that are ugly.
You know? The Hearts
and Flowers do that, you see-- that's a group-- and, uh, they say
that in order to dig things, uh, that are pretty takes no special
talent. What it really takes a talent to do is dig something ugly.
Bob: Like what?
Mike: Well, I don't know. You dig something like a garage door,
you know. I mean, how many people say "OH! Look at that garage door,"
you know? I mean, you get a lot of this stuff: "Oh, what beautiful
azaleas." That doesn't--
Bob: Does that apply to, uh, people, too?
Mike: Well, it applies to you a lot, Bob.
Sheer genius.
