Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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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.
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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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How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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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.
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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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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.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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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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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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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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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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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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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.
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As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
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So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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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.
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"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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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.