Top 100 Ziggy Marley Quotes
#1. URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
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#3. Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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#5. In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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#6. I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.
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#7. I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
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#8. Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
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#9. The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
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#12. Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.
Bob Marley
#13. I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.
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#14. Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.
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#16. Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
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#17. I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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#18. Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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#19. If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
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#20. I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
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#21. Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.
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#22. 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.
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#23. My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
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#24. Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
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#25. I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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#27. Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers
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#28. I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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#29. My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music ... I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
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#30. I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
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#31. Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
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#32. Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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#33. If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
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#34. Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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#35. I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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#36. The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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#37. Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
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#38. 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
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#39. I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.
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#40. Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
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#41. As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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#42. There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
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#43. I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
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#44. My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me ... I don't fight the universe.
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#45. Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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#46. I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.
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#48. The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
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#49. Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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#50. Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
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#51. Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
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#52. I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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#53. I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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#57. My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
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#58. 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.
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#59. It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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#64. There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind
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#65. 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.
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#66. If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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#72. 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
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#73. My father speaks for himself, through his music.
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#74. God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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#75. 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.
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#76. I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
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#77. We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.
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#78. As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.
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#79. Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion
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#80. I'm into anything that really helps children.
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#81. Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
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#82. I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.
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#83. I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
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#84. I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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#85. I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
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#86. My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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#87. The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
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#88. It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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#89. 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.
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#90. I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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#91. There's more to life than physical and material.
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#92. The music I do is food ... that will be your dinner.
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#93. Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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#98. 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.
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#99. The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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#100. 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.
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