Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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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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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 used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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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 want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
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I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
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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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Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
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Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
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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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My father speaks for himself, through his music.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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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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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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There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. Ziggy Marley
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I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.
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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.