Top 50 Davy Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?”

— Davy Jones

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2. “Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.”

— Davy Jones

3. “Are you prepared for what’s next?”

— Davy Jones

4. “The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!”

— Davy Jones

5. “I only bet on what’s dearest to a man’s heart. Else there is no way to tell if he’s bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that’s a measure of his soul.”

— Davy Jones

6. “Did you forget? I’m a heartless wretch!”

— Davy Jones

7. “Now, let’s see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!”

— Davy Jones

8. “The only people who didn’t like The Monkees were the French, and they don’t even like themselves, so what’s the point?”

— Davy Jones

9. “I’d like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.”

— Davy Jones

10. “Once you’re in, you’re in. It’s like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.”

— Davy Jones

11. “I don’t need any more awards.”

— Davy Jones

12. “I guess it’s nice to have someone to love while you’re looking for someone to love.”

— Davy Jones

13. “Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!”

— Davy Jones

14. “You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesn’t matter to me.”

— Davy Jones

15. “The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn’t mean that we’re rebellious.”

— Davy Jones

16. “I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.”

— Davy Jones

17. “It’s not about what you have, it’s what people think you have.”

— Davy Jones

18. “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

19. “I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn’t go to the prom with them.”

— Davy Jones

20. “I’m really a clean-cut kid.”

— Davy Jones

21. “I wanted to be a jockey.”

— Davy Jones

22. “I was mad at Screen Gems, but I’m not mad at them anymore.”

— Davy Jones

23. “You will not forestall my judgement!”

— Davy Jones

24. “Davey Jones: Do you fear... death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?”

— Davy Jones

25. “Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I’m pretty sure I didn’t misplace it somewhere along the way.”

— Davy Jones

26. “The racing bug is never going to go away. It’s like the Mafia.”

— Davy Jones

27. “I never slept alone until I was married.”

— Davy Jones

28. “My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.”

— Davy Jones

29. “Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!”

— Davy Jones

30. “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.”

— Davy Jones

31. “The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.”

— Davy Jones

32. “The Monkees are like the mafia. You’re in for life. Nobody gets out.”

— Davy Jones

33. “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

34. “As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.”

— Davy Jones

35. “I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.”

— Davy Jones

36. “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

37. “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

38. “America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.”

— Davy Jones

39. “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

40. “It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.”

— Davy Jones

41. “During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.”

— Davy Jones

42. “And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.”

— Davy Jones

43. “The thing is, the reader doesn’t want to hear about bad times.”

— Davy Jones

44. “I’m so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it’s so misleading how they interpret what you say.”

— Davy Jones

45. “Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.”

— Davy Jones

46. “I’m about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.”

— Davy Jones

47. “I’ve got a farm in England where I breed horses.”

— Davy Jones

48. “You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I’m a coronary.”

— Davy Jones

49. “My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.”

— Davy Jones

50. “In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.”

— Davy Jones