Shaggy Quotes

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

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

We built up a hardcore following, but we were really still semipro, gigging over long weekends and the like. So after EMI signed us, we packed in the day jobs because we had to make an album.

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.

I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.

I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have to just consistently crank out albums and run off on tour for the sake of supporting myself.

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.