David Thomas Jones Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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 really a clean-cut kid.

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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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• I don’t need any more awards.

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

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

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• There’s an audience for everything.

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• The racing bug is never going to go away. It’s like the Mafia.

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• The only people who didn’t like The Monkees were the French, and they don’t even like themselves, so what’s the point?

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

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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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• People ask me if I ever get sick of playing ‘Daydream Believer’ or whatever. But I don’t look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco?’

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• Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.

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• My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

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

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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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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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