Michael Nesmith Quotes
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I love Chicago.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
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The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.
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Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.
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I listen to music every day and that is a fact. My son pointed out the other day that there's not a day that goes by without him listening to music in our house. I'm still an avid punter when it comes to either checking out bands or buying new music.
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If you love music, than you can play music.
