Shaggy Quotes

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

I always wanted to run a major label, and I feel like I got the skills to do that. The one thing about me is that I won't sit behind a desk the whole time - I'll go to the clubs and see what's hot.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

I just have so much love for my record label.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.

As a producer putting up music, I wasn't dropping a project to do this much numbers or make this amount of money, I really just dropped a project for the streets and the culture of music.

I would love the record industry to be more receptive to my music but all they are interested in is style over content.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the music business. Plus, setting up my own record company taught me a lot.