Top 100 Quotes About Bob Marley
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.
Tessanne Chin
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob Marley
#11. I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
Jon Fishman
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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.
#17. I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
Matisyahu
#18. We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
L.A. Reid
#19. You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake.
Miley Cyrus
#20. The biggest coward in the world Is a man who awakens a woman's love, with no intention of loving her. -Bob Marley
Kim Kaye
#21. The soft wool blend of his sweater felt itchy compared to his skin.
Even though we'd been together all night, I couldn't get over the
feel of him, his taste, that potent, delicious smell of his neck. I was
higher than a fan at a Bob Marley concert.
Ophelia London
#22. There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.
Matisyahu
#23. I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated,
Snoop Dogg
#24. I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
Spike Lee
#25. In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
Bruno Mars
#26. She moved in for a better look.It was a portrait of Bob Marley,a pretty good one,actually.No Woman, No Cry ... that's right.No teenage girls either.All right,ten points if you'Re a poet,minus twenty-five if you're in a band and minus fifty if you're into the ganja.
Sheri Meshal
#27. But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
Henry Rollins
#28. I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
Damian Marley
#29. I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.
Bill Laswell
#30. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.
Fred D'Aguiar
#31. From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
Brendon Urie
#32. That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
Wyclef Jean
#33. I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.
Usain Bolt
#34. When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
Michael Franti
#35. I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.
Jenny Lewis
#36. When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.
Matisyahu
#37. You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
Jon Fishman
#38. So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach
Jimmy Buffett
#39. There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean
#40. Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.
Melanie Fiona
#41. Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest.
Stephen Marley
#42. Ruislip, the Fop's opponent, resembled a bad dream one might have if one fell asleep watching sumo wrestling on the television with a Bob Marley record playing in the background. He was a huge Rastafarian who looked like nothing so much as an obese and enormous baby.
Neil Gaiman
#43. Our mental blocks are more formidable than the physical ones. Bob Marley said it when he asked us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. You first think what you become. The physical starts from the mental and the spiritual.
Nana Awere Damoah
#44. I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.
Jon Fishman
#45. I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
Henry Rollins
#46. I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.
Amanda Donohoe
#47. I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers ... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
Diplo
#48. When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.
W. Kamau Bell
#49. I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.
Matthew Morrison
#50. There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did.
Trey Anastasio
#51. Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean
#52. I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
Kamala Harris
#53. When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it's true. It's like all art and creation: You're completely in the moment, and you just feel free.
Cory Monteith
#54. I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
R. Kelly
#55. If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience ... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
Ziggy Marley
#56. Kona was in tears, wailing like Bob Marley in a bear trap
inconsolable.
Christopher Moore
#57. Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.
Colbie Caillat
#58. My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
Valerie June
#60. I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.
Ice Cube
#61. 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
#62. Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
Bob Marley
#63. It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.
Bob Marley
#64. Never let the children cry,
Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why
Bob Marley
#65. Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.
Bob Marley
#66. When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.
Bob Marley
#67. Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
Bob Marley
#69. You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
Bob Marley
#70. 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
#71. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Bob Marley
#72. 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
#73. Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.
Bob Marley
#74. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war
Bob Marley
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
Bob Marley
#78. 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
#79. I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy.
Bob Marley
#80. Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!
Bob Marley
#81. 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
#82. Trust the universe and respekt your hair.
Bob Marley
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Life must be somewhere to be
found, instead of # ConcreteJungle .
Bob Marley
#87. I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.
Bob Marley
#88. I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!
Bob Marley
#89. 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
#91. If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
Bob Marley
#92. Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.
Bob Marley
#93. 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
#94. The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.
Bob Marley
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
Bob Marley
#99. This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
Bob Marley
#100. Don't give up the fight,
Stand up for your rights.
Bob Marley
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