Ziggy Marley Quotes

I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

I'm my own psychologist.

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant and it is very useful.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

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.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

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.