Shaggy Quotes

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Shaggy

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 22, 1968

I'm one of those artists that nobody ever sees coming. We started with Virgin in 1993. If you look at the climate of that time in reggae and you were to pick the top five people that'd have a shot at having mainstream success, I was nowhere in that equation at all.

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When I was doing 'Hot Shot,' I didn't even have an album deal.

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I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

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The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.

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'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.

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The greatest thing about me is I have always been able to reinvent. We have done that about three or four times with my sound.

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I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.

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I would never be about waking up early and do morning radio and TV back to back had I not been in the military, where they are throwing a garbage can in the middle of my squad bed at 5 o'clock in the morning for four years straight.

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I cleaned many a toilet.

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Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. Shaggy is flamboyant; he's cocky. And I can't live that twenty-four hours a day - hell, no.

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I have to be me, which is, don't like a lot of crowds, don't like a lot of attention - kind of being by myself.

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You might be like, 'I want really big hits.' But when you get really big hits, and your label is making $150 million, they are people who are now interested in what you do. They are going to begin to tell you what to do, and so you become important. So your creative freedom - you're not going to have that again.

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I go to bed late, and I wake up early; in this game, to win it, you have to do that. The military prepared me to do that: you go to bed late and wake up early.

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Ireland kind of reminds me of Jamaicans - there are a lot of Irish people in Jamaica. It's the blend of their easy-going nature, cool mentality, and warmth.

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I'm not big on collaborations with 'superstars.' It generally doesn't work for me.

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I did a record with Janet Jackson, and it went to the top of the charts, and we had all of these complications, and she couldn't be in the video and couldn't do anything for the record. I went through something similar with Pitbull. I think it works really well for a lot of other artists, but for me, it just doesn't work that well.

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I just put people on my records that I think bring something really unique to the song, and that's what's going to make it live over time. Not the fact that an artist might be 'hot' at the time.

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I don't want another 'It Wasn't Me.' I've been asked that question so many times. Do I want a song of that magnitude? Great, always, but not the same type of music.

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After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

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I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though I came from dancehall.

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