Ziggy Marley
31 quotes
Biography
"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 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 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."
"The music I do is food... that will be your dinner."
"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."
"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 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 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."
"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."
"I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go."
"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."
"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."
"Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun."
"Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage."
"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."
"Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself"
"I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it."
"Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people."
"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."
"The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message."
"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."
"URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages."
"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."
"Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people."