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
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.
We're past the false dawn, and now we're in this text-based mode, and the text-based mode, of course, is what will have to settle off to one side.
There's a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. It's very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but it's there to be seen.
The one thing that has become more and more clear to me-we're all on pretty much the same track. You grow along like everybody else grows along.
Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day, music is still there. It's an extremely important part of what I am.
I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.
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.
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.
There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
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.
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.
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.
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.