Shaggy Quotes

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Shaggy

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 22, 1968

I'm Shaggy. I'm a business.

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My career has taken so many directions.

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I've never been one that really won with major-name collaborators. You take, for instance, 'Angel' with Rayvon. 'It Wasn't Me' was with Rikrok. Nobody knew who those guys were.

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You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.

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The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.

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I fought for this country.

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I prefer working with artists who are prepared to get down in the dungeons and get the job done.

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If you look at reggae and dancehall artists in general, there isn't really a big success story. A Shabba Ranks or a Yellowman might have a hit, but there's never a follow up. There's no consistency.

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I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

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I just do what sounds good to me, and people seem to like it.

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I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.

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The Police, they were the guys that were like the gateway to the mainstream. In England, there was a very strong reggae movement that was going on. Anything that was happening in reggae happened out of England. They were brilliant. They could spot a sound that was cool, the 'it' sound.

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If you listen to all my earlier stuff, it wasn't 'authentic reggae,' so to speak.

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I like things that catch your ears.

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I always had these big records with people who were relatively unknown.

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I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.

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Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights.

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When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes.

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I fought for the U.S. government. I live in New York. I pay taxes in America.

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America is a symbol of freedom - it's a symbol of democracy - and if that is threatened, we have to take this platform and use it to be a voice for the voiceless.

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