Ziggy Marley Quotes

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.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

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.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.

I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

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.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

People love me everywhere I go.

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

Success to me does not mean money.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

A record is a message, timeless.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

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.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

"I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

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.