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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
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
Reggae is vile. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I've always been a huge reggae fan. -- Ville Valo
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Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are. -- Matisyahu
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon -- Peter Tosh
Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage. -- Ella Henderson
This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace. -- Bob Marley
I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion. -- Susan Olsen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The really cool thing about reggae music is that I can get away with saying spiritual things as a reggae influenced artist that I couldn't get away with saying as a rock artist. Reggae has such spiritual roots and people almost expect to hear spiritual things. -- Dominic Balli
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae. -- Lupe Fiasco
None but ourselves can free our minds. -- Bob Marley
And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. -- Merle Haggard
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to. -- Wyclef Jean
Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music. -- Billy Gibbons
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different -- Travis Barker
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere. -- Randy Weston
The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules. You had Jeffrey Hinton playing every kind of music. It was like going back to when I used to deejay at Planet in '79, where you'd mix in nutty things like hip-hop or reggae or The Sound of Music [1965] or other film soundtracks - whatever. -- Boy George
I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music. -- Nina Persson
My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world. -- Ziggy Marley
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. -- Anne Lamott
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley. -- Bruno Mars
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do. -- Matisyahu
My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that. -- Michael Franti
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I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to. -- Ella Henderson
I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element. -- Kreesha Turner
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house. -- Gavin Rossdale
I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music. -- Dule Hill
I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre. -- Doug Martsch
I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. -- Jerry Hall
I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums. -- Dave Willis
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. -- John Lescroart
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop. -- Estelle
I love a lot of reggae, but Ive never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys. -- Billy Sheehan
One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim... -- Bob Marley
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio! -- Daniel Clowes
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
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions. -- Burning Spear
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As crazy as it sounds, I really think that God just put the reggae thing in me. I can point to a few things in my life that pushed me in that direction. -- Dominic Balli
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
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
I listen to so much, I listen to a lot of reggae. Obviously I listen to hip-hop, that's what I make. I listen to soul. I love jazz. I love all types of music. -- DJ Khaled
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

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