Ziggy Marley quotes:

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  • 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.

  • URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

  • The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

  • 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.

  • It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

  • My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

  • 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.

  • Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  • 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.

  • People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

  • Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

  • Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

  • I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

  • Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  • Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

  • 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.

  • I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

  • I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

  • We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

  • Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

  • My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

  • My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

  • I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

  • Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

  • I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

  • 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.

  • I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

  • Success to me does not mean money.

  • My father speaks for himself, through his music.

  • 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.

  • Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

  • No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  • A record is a message, timeless.

  • 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.

  • I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

  • My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  • 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.

  • My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

  • I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

  • Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

  • God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  • I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

  • 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.

  • I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

  • I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

  • I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

  • The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

  • Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

  • The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

  • I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

  • As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

  • It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

  • I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

  • 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.

  • I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

  • Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

  • 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.

  • The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

  • I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

  • Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

  • Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

  • The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

  • The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  • 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.

  • This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I am a leader, so 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.

  • I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

  • 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.

  • Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

  • I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

  • 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.

  • My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

  • If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

  • When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

  • I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

  • Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

  • I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

  • Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

  • Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

  • I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

  • In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

  • 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.

  • The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

  • There's more to life than physical and material.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  • 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,

  • Music is a unifying force.

  • I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

  • I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.

  • I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on.

  • 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.

  • How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

  • I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

  • In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

  • 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

  • I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

  • The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

  • 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.

  • Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

  • Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

  • I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

  • She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.

  • My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

  • I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

  • 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.

  • The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  • The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

  • I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

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