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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I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.
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Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance.
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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
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You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'
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You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
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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.
