Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
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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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People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
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I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
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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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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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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
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The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
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Nobody owns me or my music.
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The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.
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What inspires me is the universe.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.
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I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
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I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
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People love me everywhere I go.
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There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
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I'm my own psychologist.
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.
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My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
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If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true