Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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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 want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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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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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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My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
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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 used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.
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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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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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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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If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
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I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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My father speaks for himself, through his music.