Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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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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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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I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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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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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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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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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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I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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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 like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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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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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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Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.
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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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Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.
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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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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
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In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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My father speaks for himself, through his music.