Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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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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"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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I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.
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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 used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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My father speaks for himself, through his music.
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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.
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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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People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.
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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.
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We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.
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As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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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.
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I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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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 come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.
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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 don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.