Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true
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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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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 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 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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Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
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Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.
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To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.
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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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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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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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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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Children are not a burden.
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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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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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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 think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
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It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.
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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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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.