Davy Jones Quotes


"We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Order)

"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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Change, People, Artists, Guests, Variety)

"The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year."
- Davy Jones
"The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Want)

"You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me."
- Davy Jones
"The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Life)

"People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around."
- Davy Jones
(Related: People, Being)

"Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Fans, Letters, Years)

"My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Family, Life, Enjoyment)

"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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Love, Commerce, Play, Right, Shame)

"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Mail, Office)

"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses."
- Davy Jones
(Related: England, Horses)

"As far as groupies, I never saw any of them."
- Davy Jones
"I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Home, Life, Sex, Man, Want)

"They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Fans, Want)

"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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: 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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: England, Property, Race, Weather)

"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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: People, Actor, Boys, Now, Racing)

"During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Summer)

"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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: People, Faces, Now)

"I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them."
- Davy Jones
(Related: America, Girls, Hate, Letters)

"I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Property, Quiet)

"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."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Life, Rest, Years)

"I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore."
- Davy Jones
"I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Comedy)

"And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor."
- Davy Jones
(Related: Humor)