Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men. "
Shawn Amos
Need
Long
Men
Related Quotes:
" New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined. "
Shawn Amos
New York
History
City
" 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. "
Shawn Amos
Line
Beautiful
Big
" 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. "
Shawn Amos
Music
Rock
Poverty
" Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there. "
Shawn Amos
Single
1940s
Building
" I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap. "
Shawn Amos
Simple
Target
Friends
" As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages. "
Shawn Amos
People
America
Black
" Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred. "
Shawn Amos
Star
Some
Looking
" There is a difference between a hand out and a help up. Brothers need to help brothers. They don't do it enough. "
Shawn Amos
Need
Help
Up
" Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it's a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or the realization that they don't look so good any other way. Whatever the reason, makeup is as rock n' roll as a Marshall stack. "
Shawn Amos
Strong
Best
Help
" While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. "
Shawn Amos
Music
Father
Culture
" 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. "
Shawn Amos
Clothing
Food
Toys
" Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business. "
Shawn Amos
Run
Very
Poorly
" Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move. "
Shawn Amos
Always
Move
Men
" The Republicans need all the entertainment help they can get. When Charlie Daniels was one of your convention headliners, you know you need some serious help. "
Shawn Amos
Need
Your
You
" Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant. "
Shawn Amos
Race
Stay
Attention
" There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside of his comfort zone to pour all of his high-school-drama angst into a poorly scripted scenario was a sight to behold. "
Shawn Amos
Step
Sight
Comfort Zone
" Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time. "
Shawn Amos
Media
Great
Time
" In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing. "
Shawn Amos
Style
Baby
Own
" 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. "
Shawn Amos
Sales
Selling
Own
" Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. "
Shawn Amos
Political
Great
Free
" Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home. "
Shawn Amos
Big
Depression
Home
" If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star. "
Shawn Amos
Clothes
Rock Star
Rock
" The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. "
Shawn Amos
Dove
Iconic
Flute
" I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them. "
Shawn Amos
Struggle
Ahead
Hollywood
" Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants. "
Shawn Amos
Stars
Leather
Own
" 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. "
Shawn Amos
Fact
Say
Work
" I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air. "
Shawn Amos
Daughter
Fantasy
Land
" Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American. "
Shawn Amos
City
Come
Here
" Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand. "
Shawn Amos
Content
Words
Want
" I take my kids to a farmers' market each Sunday to buy organic produce. "
Shawn Amos
Take
Sunday
Market