Shawn Amos Quotes

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Shawn Amos

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 13, 1967

We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

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I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce.

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We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

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Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

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Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.

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Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

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Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

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Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

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At its best, American music is the soundtrack of our long - and often painful - march toward a more perfect union.

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Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.

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Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.

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Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

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Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.

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While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

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The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

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The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.

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We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

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Google+ will never have a user base to rival Facebook's. It just won't. Not even if you include the 'users' who create accounts so that they can use other Google services.

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The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.

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Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.

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