Ziggy Marley Quotes (45 Quotes)


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

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

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

    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 think that his ability to reach out to people was because of his sincerity in what he was doing. And the truth in which he did it in. He had no ulterior motive. He wasn't trying to be something. He wasn't into gimmicks. He wasn't trying to be a star. He was trying to express himself.


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

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

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

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

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


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

    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.

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


    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.


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

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

    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 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.

    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.


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

    There's more to life than physical and material.

    It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

    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.

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

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

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

    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.

    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.

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

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



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