Peter Tork Quotes

“Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.”

— Peter Tork

“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.”

— Peter Tork

Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.

— Peter Tork

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

— Peter Tork

“I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.”

— Peter Tork

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

— Peter Tork

“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

“I am more of an old black and white movies fan.”

— Peter Tork

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

— Peter Tork

“Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.”

— Peter Tork

“Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.”

— Peter Tork

“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

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

— Peter Tork

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

— Peter Tork

“I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.”

— Peter Tork

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

“Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.”

— Peter Tork

“I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.”

— Peter Tork

“Yes, I am a good singer.”

— Peter Tork

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

— Peter Tork

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

— Peter Tork

“Every country has it trade offs.”

— Peter Tork

“I like to listen the blues and some classical.”

— Peter Tork

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

— Peter Tork

“Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.”

— Peter Tork

“There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.”

— Peter Tork

“We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.”

— Peter Tork

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

— Peter Tork

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.”

— Peter Tork

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

— Peter Tork

“The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!”

— Peter Tork

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

— Peter Tork

“Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!”

— Peter Tork

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