Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith
Robert Michael Nesmithis 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. Nesmith's songwriting credits include "Different Drum". He is also an executive producer of the cult film Repo Man. In 1981, Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year for his hour-long television show, Elephant Parts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1942
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Multimedia scares me off.
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre
Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.