Ziggy Marley Quotes
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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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'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
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It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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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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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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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 would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
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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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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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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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Children are not a burden.
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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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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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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 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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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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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 of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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I'm my own psychologist.
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Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
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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 roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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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.