Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Davy Jones
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Davy Jones.
Last updated on November 6, 2024.
People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
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?'
They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
I'm really a clean-cut kid.
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.
I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.
We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
I don't need any more awards.
My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
There's an audience for everything.
I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.
The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.
Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
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.
America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
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.
My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
I wanted to be a jockey.
I guess it's nice to have someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.
I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.
It's not about what you have, it's what people think you have.
Are you prepared for what's next?
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.
Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!
I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.
The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.
Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.
I never slept alone until I was married.
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?
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