Michael Nesmith Quotes

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• If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.
• Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain
• Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
• The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays…
• The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really…
• Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.
• Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right…
• 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.
• As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind…
• It's 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.
• You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three.…
• I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so…
• I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the…
• I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure…
• I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only…
• I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back…
• Multimedia scares me off.
• Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening…
• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10…
• Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you…

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