Best Reggae Quotes

#1. I grew up with reggae music.

Youssou N'Dour

#2. Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

David Lee Roth

#3. I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.

Marlon James

#4. With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

Estelle

#5. Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

Billy Gibbons

#6. 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

#7. I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.

Susan Olsen

#8. I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

Ike Turner

#9. All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Afrika Bambaataa

#10. I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'

Sean Paul

#11. Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music.

Eve

#12. Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#13. A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

Wyclef Jean

#14. I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.

Tessanne Chin

#15. I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

Paul Simonon

#16. I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

Kat Dahlia

#17. I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Doug Martsch

#18. In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

Bob Marley

#19. This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

Bob Marley

#20. One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim ...

Bob Marley

#21. Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

Tori Kelly

#22. Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.

Burning Spear

#23. In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

Colin Hay

#24. I listen to a lot of reggae.

Iwan Rheon

#25. I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know old reggae artists. So that's my thing. Old reggae artists and martial arts.

Greg Cipes

#26. Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

Conor Oberst

#27. I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

Dave Willis

#28. And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Merle Haggard

#29. Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

Ziggy Marley

#30. You're that lady," Leo said. "The one who was named after Caribbean music."
Her eyes glinted murderously. "Caribbean music."
"Yeah. Reggae?" Leo shook his head. "Merengue? Hold on, I'll get it."
He snapped his fingers. "Calypso!

Rick Riordan

#31. You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!

Blake Lively

#32. I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

Laura Pausini