Top 100 Quotes About Reggae
#1. I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
B.o.B
#2. One young man who had a tattoo of a bumblebee on his arm (the symbol of his favorite reggae group) was identified as a gang member. The gang was identified as the "Killer Bee Gang." According to Department of Corrections records, the Killer Bees were a gang of one.
Lauraet Magnani
#3. People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music
Peter Tosh
#4. Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
Burning Spear
#5. I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula
#6. Dub and reggae ... I play that a lot around the house.
Gavin Rossdale
#7. 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
#8. When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.
Snoop Dogg
#9. Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?
Peter Tosh
#10. My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
Nas
#11. 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
#12. Mr. Bird was an avid hiker, lover of reggae
Anonymous
#13. I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to.
Ella Henderson
#14. I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.
Stevie Wonder
#15. I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.
Jerry Hall
#16. I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
Travis Barker
#17. In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
Damian Marley
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.
Bruno Mars
#21. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#22. When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
Stephen Marley
#23. I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class ... they both come from the bottom of society.
Damian Marley
#24. Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.
Ella Henderson
#25. I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Dave Wakeling
#26. I've always been a huge reggae fan.
Ville Valo
#27. I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
Peter Hook
#28. Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.
Shameik Moore
#29. Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
Ziggy Marley
#30. It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
Damian Marley
#31. My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.
Talib Kweli
#32. Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.
Moby
#33. Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon
Peter Tosh
#34. I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
Ziggy Marley
#35. 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
#36. When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
Jimmy Cliff
#37. 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
#38. I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
B.o.B
#39. Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
OMI
#40. 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.
Ziggy Marley
#41. My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.
Coby Bell
#42. Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.
Brian Regan
#43. Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I'm happy and proud of.
Heavy D
#44. I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
Estelle
#45. Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.
Matisyahu
#46. I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.
Billy Sheehan
#47. 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
#48. My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
Ziggy Marley
#49. A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Wyclef Jean
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.
Tori Kelly
#55. One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim ...
Bob Marley
#56. This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
Bob Marley
#57. I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.
Doug Martsch
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
#63. Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music.
Eve
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.
Susan Olsen
#68. 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
#69. Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.
Billy Gibbons
#70. 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
#71. 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
#73. I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.
Dave Willis
#74. I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.
Sean Kingston
#75. I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
John Lescroart
#76. I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae ... That's why I've been on so many different labels.
Afrika Bambaataa
#77. 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
#78. My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant.
Stephen Marley
#79. My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
Matisyahu
#80. In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
Bruno Mars
#81. I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
OMI
#82. I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Anne Lamott
#83. I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.
Dule Hill
#84. I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.
Peter Tosh
#85. Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?
Burning Spear
#86. Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.
Stephen Marley
#87. Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to '80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.
Ella Henderson
#88. Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
Jonny Greenwood
#89. Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them ... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
Daniel Clowes
#90. 30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I'm from, and the mindset of '30058.' It's got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It's soothing, I think.
Shameik Moore
#91. At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
Solange Knowles
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.
Merle Haggard
#96. 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
#97. In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
Bob Marley
#98. Sometimes you have to fight with music.
Bob Marley
#99. We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.
Bob Marley
#100. None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley
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