Peter Tork Quotes

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
Peter Tork

Music, Blues, Pop

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

Music, Put, Energy

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

Life, Music, Away

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

Music, Power, America

Every country has it trade offs.
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

Play, Getting, Blues

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

Baseball, Cricket, Wonderful

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

Friend, Him, Weird

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.
Peter Tork

Movies, Black, Old

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
Peter Tork

Nothing, Knew, Ashamed

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

Time, Friends, Beatles

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

Fun, Play, Guitar

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

Good, Done, Before

I like to listen the blues and some classical.
Peter Tork

Listen, Blues, Classical

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
Peter Tork

Music, Car, House

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

Fun, Night, Play

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

Happy, Sunday, Through

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
Peter Tork

Before, Happened, Solo

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

Music, Wanted, Star

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

Time, Thought, Themselves

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.
Peter Tork

Purpose, Songs, Original

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

Music, True, Guys

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

Old, Year, Band

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

Together, Blues, Brings

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Nationality: American

Born: February 13, 1942

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