Shaggy Quotes

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

I think music changes and it evolves.

'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

Everything evolves, not just music.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.