Ziggy Marley Quotes
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URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
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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, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
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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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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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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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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 run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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Children are not a burden.
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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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The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
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I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
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In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion
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It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.