Michael Nesmith

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

#bad #bad people #been #good #good people

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

#expect #feel #fixed #go #go away

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 #economic #economic engine #engine #incumbent

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

#arc #around #artist #crawling #describing

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

— Michael Nesmith

#nothing #stock #them #those #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

#coined #day #dream #forgot #good

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

#back #finished #going #i #i am

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

#another #back #day #finished #go

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

#axes #doing #follow-up #grind #i

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

#because #frame #important #much #precise