Top 100 Quotes About Marley
#1. I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.
Ziggy Marley
#2. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#3. 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
#4. Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.
Bob Marley
#5. 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
#6. It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.
Bob Marley
#7. Never let the children cry,
Cause you got to tell Jah, Jah why
Bob Marley
#8. Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.
Bob Marley
#9. When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.
Bob Marley
#10. God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
Ziggy Marley
#11. Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
Bob Marley
#13. My father speaks for himself, through his music.
Ziggy Marley
#14. You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
Bob Marley
#15. 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
Ziggy Marley
#16. My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
Ziggy Marley
#17. 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
#18. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Bob Marley
#19. Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.
Ziggy Marley
#21. When I read 'Planet Terror,' it was like nothing I had ever read before remotely, and yet it has so many references.
Marley Shelton
#22. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#23. Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.
Ziggy Marley
#24. If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true
Ziggy Marley
#25. 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
#26. Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.
Bob Marley
#27. 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
#28. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war
Bob Marley
#29. 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
#30. Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
Ziggy Marley
#31. 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
#32. I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
Ziggy Marley
#33. The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
Bob Marley
#34. 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
#35. I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
Ziggy Marley
#36. I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy.
Bob Marley
#37. Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!
Bob Marley
#38. 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
#39. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
Ziggy Marley
#40. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#41. It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
Ziggy Marley
#42. Music is the medium ... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.
Stephen Marley
#43. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#44. I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.
Tessanne Chin
#45. 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
#46. My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
Ziggy Marley
#47. 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
#48. A time, a space, a different place/ How perfect we might be/ I would be the wind that blows/ You'd be that Willow tree/ And I could never bare the thought of you not by my side/ So I would be the warmth of day/ You'd be the cool of night
Stephen Marley
#49. How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
Ziggy Marley
#50. Trust the universe and respekt your hair.
Bob Marley
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Somehow suppressing her wolf, who was eager to slice open Marley's stomach, Jaime simply gave her an unpleasant smile. You know, I watched an old episode of Friends yesterday. It was so damn funny it could have made your boobs fall off ... Oh, you saw it.
Suzanne Wright
#54. Life must be somewhere to be
found, instead of # ConcreteJungle .
Bob Marley
#57. The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Ziggy Marley
#58. Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.
Ziggy Marley
#59. I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
Ziggy Marley
#60. I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.
Bob Marley
#61. I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
Ziggy Marley
#62. There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind
Ziggy Marley
#63. I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!
Bob Marley
#64. 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
#65. Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
Ziggy Marley
#66. 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
#67. The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
Ziggy Marley
#68. Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
Ziggy Marley
#70. If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
Bob Marley
#71. Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.
Bob Marley
#73. 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
#74. I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'
John Grogan
#75. Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
Ziggy Marley
#76. A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
#77. The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.
Bob Marley
#78. 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
#79. Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul. It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.
Damian Marley
#80. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#81. I'm all about that money, dress like everyday sunny, rolling weed like a Marley, smile like everything funny.
Wiz Khalifa
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
Damian Marley
#85. 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
#86. In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
Bob Marley
#88. This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
Bob Marley
#89. Don't give up the fight,
Stand up for your rights.
Bob Marley
#90. 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
#91. Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.
Ziggy Marley
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim ...
Bob Marley
#95. The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
Damian Marley
#96. 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
#97. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#98. Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
Ziggy Marley
#99. The music I do is food ... that will be your dinner.
Ziggy Marley
#100. 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
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