Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
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All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.
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Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
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To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
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I come to fight because I love to fight. It's my life.
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My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
