Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Shaggy
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Jamaican musician Shaggy.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.
When magic happens, it just happens, brother.
You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.
I am not from a musical family.
I constantly tour every year, around the clock. That's how I make my living, and I do very well. Because I have classic songs.
The Irish want to smile, and they want to have fun.
India is a great place.
The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.
When I was doing 'Hot Shot,' I didn't even have an album deal.
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.
I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.
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.
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.
I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn't like it; I thought it was derogatory.
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.
When I look at my catalog, most of my songs are about love or relationships. And I'm smart enough to say if it's not broken, don't fix it.
I live vicariously through my songs.
I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already had.
I'm not big on collaborations with 'superstars.' It generally doesn't work for me.
Reggae is a culture. It's easy, laid-back.
I love Indian food.
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.
I get called everything from 'Mr Boombastic' to 'Mr Lover Lover' to 'Mr It Wasn't Me.' It's whatever is hot at that point.
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.
Women love to talk, so you gotta be the guy that listens - not just listens but is interested.
I'm from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She's my world.
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?
I'm still amazed at how the universe works.
My children are a joy to be around.
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.
When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.
I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.
A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.
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.'
Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.
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.
Making records is not brain surgery.
We're fortunate to have had success, not just in America but worldwide.
'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.
'Lucky Day' is what I would call the Shaggy roller-coaster ride. It takes you to different moods. I listen to music in moods.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.
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.
Music really evolves as it goes along. It's an evolution.
If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.
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.
I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000 records. But for an established artist, there's already so much piracy around. They need to regulate it.
I cleaned many a toilet.
I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.
I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.
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.
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.
You don't create legends out of other legends.
The best thing about my house is that I live five minutes from the airport, and since I fly more than I drive, it saves me a lot of time.
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.
When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.
The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.
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