Michael Nesmith Quotes

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• 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 mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

  Michael Nesmith

  Mean, Fighting, Two

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Civilization, People, Thieves

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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, Shapes, Way

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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, People, Understanding

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• If you love music, than you can play music.

  Michael Nesmith

  Play, Music Love, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Mike". TV Series "The Monkees" ("The Devil and Peter Tork", 1968), www.imdb.com. 1966-1968.

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• 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

  People, Thieves, Way

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• 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

  Long, Listening, Records

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

  Michael Nesmith

  Rain, Dark, Clouds

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• 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

  Fall, Rocks, Sitting

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

  Michael Nesmith

  Years, Data, Ideas

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• 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

  Ideas, Going Away, Fixed

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Decision, Way, Path

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

  Michael Nesmith

  Objects

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• 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

  People, Internet, Economic

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Dream, Good Day

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Artist, Thinking, Kind

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• Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.

  Michael Nesmith

  Mean, Thrill, Mouths

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• 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

  Song, People, Groups

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Moon, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• I’d play my nose now, but I’m... it’s... my nose is... out being fixed!

  Michael Nesmith

  Noses, Fixed

  "Fictional character: Mike". TV Series "The Monkees" ("Hillbilly Honeymoon", 1967), 1966-1968.

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• Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.

  Michael Nesmith

  Important, Path, Months

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  People, Culture, Force

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• 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

  Media, People, Information

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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

  Michael Nesmith

  Cliche, Trade

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• 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 have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

  Michael Nesmith

  Differences, Dollars, Wealth

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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