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Shawn Amos Quotes

We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Musicians Know Matter Pay Big

I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Finance Me Face Name Pay See

You know how hard it's been to write material? Because to do stand-up comedy, it takes time for the material to develop. So you'll come up with a joke, you'll tweak it, you'll work it for six months, you really fine tune it, and now you've got a good bit. Well, with Trump, every day there's something new coming out.

Work Good Time Day Comedy You

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Fire Anger Bitterness Clean Cancer

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Acceptance Understanding Way Mean

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

Work Power Best Generation Beyond

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

Life Thought My Life Alien Jazz Up

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

Me Thought Process Demons Hustle

When I was a dancer, I was acting.

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

Parents Believe Doing You Wrong

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'

School Book Library Week Year Down

I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.

Ugly Game Thought Week Last Even

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

People Musicians Play

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