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 somet…

- Michael Nesmith

If you love music, than you can play music.

- Michael Nesmith

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, …

- 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

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 i…

- Michael Nesmith

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

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 tra…

- Michael Nesmith

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 a…

- Michael Nesmith

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 perman…

- Michael Nesmith