Top 100 Quotes About Bob Marley
#1. Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.
Bob Marley
#2. Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
Bob Marley
#3. Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def
#4. It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.
Bob Marley
#5. Never let the children cry,
Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why
Bob Marley
#6. Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.
Bob Marley
#7. When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.
Bob Marley
#8. Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
Bob Marley
#10. You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
Bob Marley
#11. Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Bob Marley
#12. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Bob Marley
#13. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.
Bob Marley
#14. Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.
Bob Marley
#15. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#16. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war
Bob Marley
#17. The truth is an offense but not a sin
Is he who laugh last, children! is he who win
Is a foolish dog bark at a flying bird
One sheep must learn, children! to respect the sheperd
Bob Marley
#18. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'cause none of them can stop the time.
Bob Marley
#19. The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
Bob Marley
#20. The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.
Bob Marley
#21. I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy.
Bob Marley
#22. Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!
Bob Marley
#23. Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.
Bob Marley
#24. I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.
Tessanne Chin
#25. Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
Madonna Ciccone
#26. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's
Marlon James
#27. Trust the universe and respekt your hair.
Bob Marley
#28. My life anuh fi me alone ... My life a fi people ... Fi help plenty people ... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it
Bob Marley
#29. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.
Bob Marley
#30. Life must be somewhere to be
found, instead of # ConcreteJungle .
Bob Marley
#32. I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.
Bob Marley
#33. I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!
Bob Marley
#34. Don't leave music in the lone territory of the music teacher; make it a part of your instruction. In the words of Bob Marley, "Music gonna teach dem a lesson.
Sheryl G. Feinstein
#35. I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness,
everyone doin' and they're doing their best!
Bob Marley
#37. If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
Bob Marley
#38. Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.
Bob Marley
#39. In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.
Bob Marley
#40. A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
#41. The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.
Bob Marley
#42. I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.
Will Ferrell
#43. Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.
Bob Marley
#44. Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
Bob Marley
#45. You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
Bob Marley
#46. In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
Bob Marley
#47. This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
Bob Marley
#48. Don't give up the fight,
Stand up for your rights.
Bob Marley
#49. Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob Marley
#50. Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they just cannot touch us
Through the powers of the Most-High
We keep on surfacin'
Thru the powers of the Most-High
We keep on survivin'.
Bob Marley
#51. Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
Matisyahu
#52. One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim ...
Bob Marley
#53. I wish we were all hippies and did yoga, lived in cottages, smoked weed, accepted everyone for who they are, and listened to wonderful music. I wish money didn't make us who we are. I just wish we could redo society.
Bob Marley
#54. The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too ... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
Bob Marley
#55. All those governments and this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb ... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
Bob Marley
#56. When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.
Bob Marley
#57. Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob Marley
#58. Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
Bob Marley
#59. No chains around my feet, But I'm not free..
Bob Marley
#60. My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.
Bob Marley
#61. One and all have to face reality now.
Bob Marley
#62. The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.
Bob Marley
#63. I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
Jon Fishman
#64. Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you
Bob Marley
#65. It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.
Bob Marley
#66. Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
Bob Marley
#67. I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion
Bob Marley
#68. I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.
Bob Marley
#69. Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
Bob Marley
#70. Live the life u love
love the life u live
Bob Marley
#71. Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.
Bob Marley
#72. I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.
Bob Marley (March 1981)
Bob Marley
#73. Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
Damian Marley
#74. Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.
Bob Marley
#75. Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.
Bob Marley
#76. God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink
Bob Marley
#77. Don't forget your history nor your destiny
Bob Marley
#78. Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH
Bob Marley
#79. One good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain
Bob Marley
#80. I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.
Bob Marley
#81. Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird.
Bob Marley
#82. Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.
Bob Marley
#83. Live the life you love, Love the life you live
Bob Marley
#84. Bob Marley says it too but he says every little thing gonna be all right and that strikes me as an appropriate qualifier even if all he was doing was getting enough syllables to match the music.
Miriam Toews
#85. When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.
Bob Marley
#86. Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite ... if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.
Bob Marley
#87. Sometimes you have to fight with music.
Bob Marley
#88. Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.
Chris Blackwell
#89. Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
Bob Marley
#90. I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#91. Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.
Bob Marley
#92. They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.
Bob Marley
#93. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.
Bob Marley
#94. I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
Matisyahu
#96. There will never be no love at all.
Bob Marley
#97. I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.
Bob Marley
#98. Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.
Bob Marley
#100. In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side
Bob Marley
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