Peter Tork Quotes

Yes, I am a good singer.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

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

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.

Oh, the most fun thing I’ve ever been asked to autograph was breasts.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

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

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.

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

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