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Michael Nesmith Quotes
As an artist, you dont think about the parabola or the arc youre describing or where youre going to ultimately end up, youre just kind of crawling around, seeing whats out there. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. Theres nothing wrong with them. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day, music is still there. Its an extremely important part of what I am. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
I dont quite know what a record is anymore. I dont quite know how to describe it. Dont know how to define it yet, so Im just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe Ill get a better sense of what a record is. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
I havent been out in the marketplace in a while. Im thinking about going back into it. Ive got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. Its mysterious to me. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
I just finished a novel, and Im back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, Im just not sure what kind of music it is or where its going. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I dont expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Im not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. Ive got a record half finished. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and Im not doing any of that right now. I dont have any axes to grind. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Its clear that people are going to download media files, and theyre going to talk to each other, and theyre going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Its important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Its what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, theyre not going anywhere. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. Im not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Multimedia scares me off. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Nature abhors a vacuum. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at whats happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, theyre all coming back up off the mat now. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But its a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. Its all just a use of your thinking. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
The Internet provides the access to resources, so its incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
The one thing that has become more and more clear to me-were all on pretty much the same track. You grow along like everybody else grows along. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
The only people who steal are thieves, and thats a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-its the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. Its not really doing it yet, but its about to. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. Its just always been that way. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and thats the way the decisions are made. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Theres this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesnt work. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
Were past the false dawn, and now were in this text-based mode, and the text-based mode, of course, is what will have to settle off to one side. - Michael Nesmith Quotes
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