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 would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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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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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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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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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.
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Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
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For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
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If you love music, than you can play music.
