Ziggy Marley Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

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.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

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 didn't leave the MelodyMakers. The MelodyMakers still exist. We kinda took a break, and everybody was doing some other kind of thing.

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.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

I feel very good when in Italy, you all treat me good and give lots of love.

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

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.

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

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

I like to communicate. I've appreciated all the great vibes I've read from people on the web site.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I was coming out of relationships that weren't happy. I was also frustrated with the music business - it's all about images.

I was in Africa for the first time, a beautiful place, and the people were very good to us.

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.

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'm always in love.

I'm doing good. I doing a lot of excercise, getting fit for the next time I'm on the road.

I'm not an actor. I never really studied that.

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

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.

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

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

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.

In Canada, they have relaxed those laws... Keep telling the politicians... soon, nobody will be going to prison for smoking it.

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

It's different when you are on your own. At some point it's scary and then at another it's a drive that makes you focus more.

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.

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

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

Love is more than one thing.

Music is a unifying force. If we can bring musical elements together in different ways, people want to know. That's my job. My job is to take the heat and keep on going.

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.

Nine Miles, it's nice, you know my father is resting there, his body's resting... it's in the mountains... the stars are so clear there.

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

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

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

The most important thing is that the truth is revealed to me-no matter whether it's negative or positive. To understand the truth is a positive thing.

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

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.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

There's a frustration with religion being such a tool of destruction.

There's more to life than physical and materia.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

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

We believe in the almighty. The Bible is the book that is inspirational. But we don't believe in the Bible, we believe in the almighty. It's a spiritual connection, not a physical one.

We used to have horses in Jamaica. We had horses, sheep, goats, cows. I lived on a farm.

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.

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

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