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Michael Nesmith

Robert Michael Nesmith (born December 30, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). Nesmith's songwriting credits include "Different Drum" (sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys).

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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.

Kind, Making, Noodling, Novel, Tough

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.

Back, Listen, Listening, Long, Nourishing, Records

If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

Clever, Picture, Should, Steal, Stealing, Talk

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

Baseball, Escape, Firsts, Play

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.

Economic, Incumbent, Internet, People, Provides

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.

Back, Clears, Ebay, Internet, Looks, Mat

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

Actually, Americana, Genre, James, Poet, True

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.

Becomes, Create, Groups, Notion, People, Song

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.

Moon, Race, Thinking, Use

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.

Culture, Force, Iraqi, People, Victorious

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 doesn't work.

Idea, Ideas, Old, Past, Trying, Worked

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.

Anymore, Define, Grow, Grows, Know How, Records

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.

Axes, Interviews, Junket, Like, Publicity, Right

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.

Bounce, Information, Media, People

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.

Came, Dream, Good, Good Day, Word

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

Doe, Dvd, Dvds, Income, Office, Represent

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.

Anymore, Couple, Ideas, See, Thinking

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.

Back, Data, Flow, Ideas, Understand, Years

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.

Decision, Events, Logic, Principles, Pushes

If you love music, you can play music.

Ifs, Love, Music, Music Love, Play

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