Peter Tork Quotes

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

  Peter Tork

  Disco Music, Heavy Metal, Pops

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• Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

  Peter Tork

  Vitamins And Minerals, Aspirin, Pops

  "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.

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• You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

  Peter Tork

  Hero, Checks, Should

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Peter Tork

  Together, Folds

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• Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

  Peter Tork

  Choices, Misery, Clarity

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• The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!

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  Odor, Universe

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• The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

  Peter Tork

  Tv Shows, Significant Things, Adults

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• Yes, I am a good singer.

  Peter Tork

  Singers

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• I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

  Peter Tork

  Friends, Knows, Courteous

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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.

  Peter Tork

  Routine, Actors, Saws

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• What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.

  Peter Tork

  Two, Wife, House

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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.

  Peter Tork

  Plot, Comedy, Threatening

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• One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.

  Peter Tork

  Late, One Thing, I Can

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

  Peter Tork

  Fun, Night, Play

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• I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

  Peter Tork

  Ducks, Dave, Crosby

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• Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

  Peter Tork

  Play, World, Want

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• Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.

  Peter Tork

  Shoes, Two, Reunion

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• Every country has it trade offs.

  Peter Tork

  Country, Trade, Trade Offs

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

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  Gigs, Favourite, Solo

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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.

  Peter Tork

  Morning, Night, Sick

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• I like to listen the blues and some classical.

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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.

  Peter Tork

  Guy, Agendas, World

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• Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

  Peter Tork

  Vampire, Caught, Turtlenecks

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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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  Musician, Energy, Too Late

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• Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

  Peter Tork

  Men, Sense Of Humor

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