Peter Tork Quotes

• Yes, I am a good singer.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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Birth:	13th February, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Artist, Director, Guitarist, Keyboardist, Lyricist, Producer, Singer

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