Shaggy Quotes

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Shaggy

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 22, 1968

If you look at my track record, there was nothing on radio that sounded like 'Oh Carolina,' 'Mr Bombastic' when they came out.

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I'm no stranger to making timeless music.

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I like that raw energy that I get from an audience.

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When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers. This was an underground phenom.

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I really didn't think I was going to make records to where I make a living out of it.

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I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country that's so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain't even got snow. We do everything in extreme.

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My existence wouldn't be the same if there weren't women.

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There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

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The pop market is a very fickle market, and that's why for me to go into the teeny-pop, 'TRL' mode, it's not really for me.

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I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.

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'Shaggy' is a brand.

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I got to prove myself all the time. And that's good. It makes you stronger.

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My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

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I've seen the harshest of reggae purists come give me my props because I've been at it for so long... They've seen me come from the hardest of hard-core dancehall to where I am, and they've heard my music change through the years. Some might not agree, but they respect.

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