Ziggy Marley Quotes

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.

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.

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

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.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

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

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

Music is a unifying force.

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.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.

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.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

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.

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.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Love is more than one thing.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

There's more to life than physical and material.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.