Reggae Quotes

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. - Roland Gift

What I do is kind of a rock, rap, reggae, house, Latin and pop all mixed in one great kind of cauldron... I'd walk down the street when I was a kid in the summer when everyone's got their windows open and you'd hear reggae coming out of one house and then you'd hear house music coming out of another and then you'd hear Latin music coming out of another...The music I make would be a sum total of my favorite bits of what I heard. - Norman Cook

We've gotten more into seamless sets of music. Two to three songs will become one long song, moving from Afro-beat to reggae and into salsa. But we keep people dancing. We've always been about giving people what they want. - Jonathan Korty

We stopped doing the 'elevator music' thing almost three decades ago. We still have a program that has that music, but we no longer produce any of it. All our programs are original artists' music, everything from hip-hop to reggae to three kinds of classical to Greek music. - Karen Vigeland

We have some real reggae heads coming in when we'll be playing his record in the store, and it catches their ear. When we show them a picture of who it is, they're stunned. - Woody Dorsey

We don't have reggae or blues every year. We don't have enough time to have all (styles). - Dan Crews

Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ$1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer. - Tom Bailey

This one is called apollo 12 Leaving from shanty town to brixton. Sheggae, reggae, jeggae, reggae, sheggae. - Laurel Aitken