Davy Jones Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Davy Jones:
You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
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I wanted to be a jockey.
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Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.
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The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
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Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
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The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
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I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.
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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.
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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
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The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
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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.
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I'm really a clean-cut kid.
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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.
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It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
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My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
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I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.
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I don't need any more awards.
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We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
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In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
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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.
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I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
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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.
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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.
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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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?'
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They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
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I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
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The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's an audience for everything.
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The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
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The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
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Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
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I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.
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You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.
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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
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