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1. "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

2. "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

3. "Multimedia scares me off." ~ Michael Nesmith

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

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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

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

9. "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

10. "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

11. "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

12. "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

13. "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

14. "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

15. "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

16. "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

17. "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

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