Top 100 Ziggy Marley Quotes
#1. I'm not Catholic, I'm not Orthodox and I wouldn't even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don't want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it's love.
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#2. I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion
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#3. My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
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#4. If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true
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#5. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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#6. Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
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#7. The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
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#8. If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
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#9. My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
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#10. How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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#11. I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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#12. There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind
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#13. The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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#14. Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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#15. I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.
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#16. My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger ... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
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#17. Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
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#18. The music I do is food ... that will be your dinner.
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#19. There's more to life than physical and material.
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#20. I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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#21. I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
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#22. It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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#23. My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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#24. I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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#25. I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
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#26. I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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#27. Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
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#28. Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.
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#29. Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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#30. URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
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#31. I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.
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#33. The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
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#34. Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
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#35. I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
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#36. In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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#39. Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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#41. My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me ... I don't fight the universe.
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#42. I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
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#43. There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
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#45. Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
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#46. The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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#47. I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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#48. Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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#49. If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
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#50. Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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#51. Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
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#52. I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
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#53. Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers
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#54. People have to know there is more to living than physical things.
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#55. I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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#56. I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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#57. It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.
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#58. The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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#59. To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.
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#60. It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.
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#61. As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
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#62. People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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#63. No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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#64. I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
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#65. There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
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#66. Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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#67. It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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#68. Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.
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#69. I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.
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#70. I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.
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#71. Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
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#72. Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
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#73. The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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#74. It was my dad's idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it's right, I use music in that light.
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#75. I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
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#76. My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
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#77. We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
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#78. I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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#79. Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
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#80. Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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#81. Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.
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#82. Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.
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#83. The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
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#85. I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
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#86. I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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#87. I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
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#88. If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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#89. Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
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#90. I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
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#91. I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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#92. I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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#93. I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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#94. The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
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#95. My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
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#96. I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.
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#97. It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.
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#98. People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
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#99. 'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
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#100. I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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