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 that's the way the decisions are made.
Michael Nesmith

True, Path, Decisions

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
Michael Nesmith

Real, Control, Understand

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's 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

Small, Economic, Return

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
Michael Nesmith

Good, Bad, Honest

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 thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.
Michael Nesmith

Music, Away, Point

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. It's all just a use of your thinking.
Michael Nesmith

Thinking, Moon, Ways

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 intact.
Michael Nesmith

Control, Sure, Economic

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
Michael Nesmith

Nothing, Wrong, Trade

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

Good, Dream, Word

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.
Michael Nesmith

Important, Words, Thought

Multimedia scares me off.
Michael Nesmith

Off, Multimedia, Scares

Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
Michael Nesmith

Income, Box, Represent

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 of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
Michael Nesmith

End, Around, Artist

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'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.
Michael Nesmith

Sense, Quite, Grow

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 next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.
Michael Nesmith

Thinking, Idea, While

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 what kind of music it is or where it's going.
Michael Nesmith

Music, Tough, Making

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 to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.
Michael Nesmith

Music, Long, Another

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 now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith

Press, Publicity, Interviews

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
Michael Nesmith

Knowledge, Talk, Off

It's 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, they're not going anywhere.
Michael Nesmith

History, Through, Culture

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
Michael Nesmith

Thinking, Sure, Happens

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 to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.
Michael Nesmith

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 doing it yet, but it's about to.
Michael Nesmith

Rock, Same, Potential

There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
Michael Nesmith

Research, Might, Seen

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 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

May, Song, Group

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Nationality: American

Born: December 30, 1942

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