David Thomas Jones Quotes

• The Monkees are like the mafia. You’re in for life. Nobody gets out.

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

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• The thing is, the reader doesn’t want to hear about bad times.

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• They want to know I’m doing good, the fans do.

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• We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

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• We’ll get material in there and all of a sudden I’ll switch the material around or the order of the show.

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• You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn’t matter to me.

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• I’m really a clean-cut kid.

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• I’m so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it’s so misleading how they interpret what you say.

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• I’m well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

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• It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

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• America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

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• There’s an audience for everything.

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• They want to know I’m doing good, the fans do.

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• Wherever I go, people still shout out: ‘Hey, hey, we’re The Monkees.’ And I never tire of that.

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• You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I’m a coronary.

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• I don’t need any more awards.

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• I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they’re communicating on the Internet.

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• The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn’t mean that we’re rebellious.

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• The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

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David Thomas Jones (45)

Birth:	30th December, 1945
Death:	29th February, 2012
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Artist, Businessman

About

David Thomas "Davy" Jones was an English recording artist, actor and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group the Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name. His acting credits include a Tony-nominated role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver! as well as roles in The Brady Bunch film and television show; Love, American Style; and My Two Dads. Jones is considered to be one of the greatest teen idols of all time.

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