Desmond Dekker Quotes

#1. I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

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#2. Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

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#3. I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

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#4. Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

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#5. Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

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#6. So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

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#7. Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

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#8. And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

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#9. I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

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#10. The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

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#11. You can get it if you really want

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