There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.
Bob MarleyZiggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.
Bob MarleyIf you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
Bob MarleyThe biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
Bob MarleyIf you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
Bob MarleyRise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day
Bob MarleyTruth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob MarleyGod sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
Bob MarleyMusic and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.
Bob MarleyWhat we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Bob MarleyOne good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob MarleyWon't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs.
Bob MarleyJah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
Bob MarleyBabylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.
Bob MarleyBecause when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite...if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.
Bob MarleyHow good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.
Bob MarleyJust because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections
Bob MarleyThings that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.
Bob MarleyWell, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.
Bob Marley