Shaggy Quotes

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Shaggy

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 22, 1968

Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.

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I'm inspired by day to day life, things that people go through, things that make people tick. Everybody has a story, so you try to put stories into songs and try to make it as entertaining as possible.

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A lot of people do records, and they get hit records, but we were blessed with a lot of monsters. 'Oh Carolina' was a very monstrous record in 1993; so was 'Boombastic,' 'Angel' and 'It Wasn't Me.'

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Music really evolves as it goes along. It's an evolution.

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I am not from a musical family.

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I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

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India is a great place.

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I live in Kingston. When I tell people I live in Kingston, they start fearing for my life. People ask me if I have Internet in Jamaica. Like, seriously?

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Making records is not brain surgery.

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I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.

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We're fortunate to have had success, not just in America but worldwide.

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'Lucky Day' is what I would call the Shaggy roller-coaster ride. It takes you to different moods. I listen to music in moods.

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I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

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I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.

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Some people get a little shy, you know, and it can take a certain mood or a situation or a vibe for you to relax and come out of your shell.

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I live vicariously through my songs.

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You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.

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A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.

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If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

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I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already had.

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