“Steve [Stills] hung out with Peter Tork a lot because they were friends from before. Stephen was very frustrated that he didn’t get to be a Monkee. It’s true. Peter was a real sweet guy. He was the Monkee that hung out with us. The party went back and forth between Peter’s house and Steve’s in Malibu. The clique was Buddy Miles, Peter Tork, Crosby, Steve and right after Monterey, they hooked up with Hendrix. We all lived at Peter Tork’s at one time or another.” - Miles Thomas, For What It’s Worth: The Story of the Buffalo Springfield (1997)
“[T]hen I said [to Bob Rafelson], ‘Listen, I know another guy that’s a lot like me and he’s probably a little brighter, and he might be a little bit quicker and funnier.’ […] I called him [Peter] up. He said, ‘I’ll come down.’ And two days later, I found out that he had gotten the job and he called me to thank me. It was funny. I was amused that he took it because he was kind of a hipster.” - Stephen Stills on recommending Peter Tork for The Monkees, 1988 interview quoted in Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and Music of Laurel Canyon (2009) (x)
“I lived with Peter Tork of the Monkees for about six or eight months after the [Monterey Pop] festival, and Stephen [Stills] used to hang up at the house. Peter and Stephen were good friends.” - Buddy Miles, Modern Drummer, September 1988 (x)
“Buddy and I were pretty fond of each other, actually, for a while. I haven’t seen him in 30 years or something. We used to have a grand time playing together. [...] Buddy played on a few of my cuts, when I did… I can’t remember exactly which ones right now. I think it would be a song called ‘Tear the Top Off,’ ['Tear The Top Right Off My Head'] which didn’t get onto any of the regular albums, but came out on some of the collected oddities and leftovers albums and CD’s that came out later.” - Peter Tork, 2007; Rolling Stone, 2019