Ziggy Marley Quotes
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Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.
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Nobody owns me or my music.
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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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'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
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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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Children are not a burden.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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.
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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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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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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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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 don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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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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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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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.