The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.


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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES
I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES
A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES
I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES
I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES
Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES
In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES
I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES
You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES
I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES
The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES
That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES
It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES
Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES
He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES
We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES
We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES
When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES
Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES
I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES
I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES
I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES
If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES
My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
ADAM JONES