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Shawn Amos Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 13, 1967

Topics

Music King Poverty Born Place Rock

I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.

Jimmy Iovine

Happy Walking Down Street See I See

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

Jennifer McMahon

Poetry College Writing Year Vermont

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

Robert Morgan

Poetry Impossible See Define Course

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.

Matthew Henry

Greatness Goodness More Valuable

I've never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes his investment decisions.

Steve Easterbrook

Love Good Simplicity Decisions Bad

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Trip Adler

Good Value World Financial Will

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Meet Realize Difficulties Existence

Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.

Joseph Brodsky

Evil Confident Numbers Always Purity

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.

Jonathan Ive

Work Family Home Time Think Doing

When I find stuff that's interesting, I try to get a hold of it so that when I do need to make something really cool, I have it on hand.

Chris March

Cool Interesting Find Hand Try Need

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.

Brian Fallon

I Can Too Much Want Special Sound

My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.

Annie Ilonzeh

Remember Sometimes Everyone Going