Micky Dolenz Quotes

• The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.

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  Stars, Nasa

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• Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

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  Memories, People, Remember

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• People come and people go, moving fast and moving slow, I'm in a crowd and yet I'm all alone.

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  Moving, People, Crowds

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• Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

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  Verbs, Nouns

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• When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

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  Mother, Angel, Looks

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• With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

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  Brain, World, Drummer

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• To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!

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  Two, Three, Cabbage

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• My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

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  Berries, Littles, Influence

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• I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

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  Learning, Acting, Acting Now

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• Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??

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  Clothes, Yeah

  "The Monkees: Monkees Watch Their Feet". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

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  Golf, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

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  Mom, Father, Play

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• Writing is a great love of mine.

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  Writing, Great Love, Mines

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• When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.

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  Song, Funny Things, Two

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• Shh! Don't talk with your mouth full.

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  Labyrinth, Shh, Mouths

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• When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

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  Months

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• I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

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  Guitar, Piano, Parent

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• I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

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  Awards, Honest, Being Honest

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• After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

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  School, Auditions, Facts

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• The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

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  Songwriters

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• And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

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  Singing, Muscles, Vocal Cords

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• What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

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  School, Boys, Years

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• There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

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  Mother, Father, Singing

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

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  Kids, Physics, Quantum

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• I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.

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  Years, Gliding, Lucky

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