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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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" 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. "

Shawn Amos

Music

History

Relationship

" Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred. "

" You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life. "

" The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers. "

Shawn Amos

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Independent

" Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world. "

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

" Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems. "

" The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight. "

" Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business. "

" Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight. "

" When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will stand out in an increasingly information-saturated world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead. "

" In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies. "

Shawn Amos

Talent

Father

" My stroller of choice is the Graco Classic. It's the '70s Buick of strollers, bulky with a complete absence of style. There are no good lines on the Graco. Yes, it has cup holders, like any self-respecting car or stroller does these days, but the luxuries stop there. "

" 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. "

" Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music. "

" Early 1900s Hollywood was full of farmers battling to hold onto their land against a new influx of filmmakers who dug Hollywood's reliable weather and diverse landscape. "

" Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us. "

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

" New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined. "

" Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move. "

" The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head. "

" Chrissie Hynde is the coolest woman alive, and no man can have her. "