Bob Marley Quotes (103 Quotes)

To make music is a life that I have to live.

Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be.

Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Don't Let them fool ya or even try to school ya.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans

Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I wanted to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have been angry so I said 'I shot the sheriff' means the same thing though justice

Overcome the devils with a thing named love.

Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know what life is worth, you would look for yours on earth,And now you see the light, you stand up for right, yah.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

I go to jail one time for no driver license.

I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down

Don't forget your history nor your destiny.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha BMW make pure trouble

But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty.

Politics no interest me. Dem devil business.... Dem a play with peoples minds. Never play with peoples minds.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

Who are you to judge the life I live I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

If I am guilty I will pay.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Live the life you love. Love the life you live.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you.

I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

The only truth is Rastafari.

Conquer the devils with a little thing called love

Marley has an easy confidence and claims his childhood made me strong ... I know my father - through my brothers and sisters and my mother, and through his music. He is very much present, his spirit is very much here, but not in a superficial way. He lives through us.

I wanna love you and treat you right I wanna love you every day and every night We'll be together with a roof right over our heads We'll share the shelter of my single bed We'll share the same room, yeah - for Jah provide the bread. Is this love - is this love - is this love - Is this love that I'm feelin'

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The authorities tell you that you mustn't smoke herb because it's bad for you. Yet if they catch you at it they'll carry you off to prison. I think it's better to be smoking herb out here free than being in prison.

In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.

When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace.

Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift.

If puss and dog can get together, why cant we love one another

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

You smoke herb in Zimbabwe Yeh, One night we go to a soldier place and a guerilla call out to me and give me a touch of something...and that was it. No wonder they won the war Tell ya boy, dem mon smoke some good herb mon De tell me they smoke that herb and feel brave. Them tell me it make them...invisible.

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.