Shaggy Quotes

It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into many different genres and many different styles and many different places but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself all along the way but also inventing things at the same time.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

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

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

Every movie you score you hope is unlike anything you have done before. You are always trying to not sound like yourself.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.