Ziggy marley quotes

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

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

Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

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

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

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.

What inspires me is the universe.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

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.

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

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.

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

Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.

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

The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

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.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. That would be the revelation of love. If you have a question of whether this is love, think about the effect.

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

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

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

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

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'm my own psychologist.

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

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.

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.

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

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.

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

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.

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

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

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 am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.

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.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

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

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

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

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

As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

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.

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

I've never read one book about my father.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

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

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true

The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

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'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.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

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

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

Love is more than one thing.

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.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

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 grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

I'm into anything that really helps children.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

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.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

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.

People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

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.

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.

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

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

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.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

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.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

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 most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

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

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

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

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

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

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.

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

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.

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.

Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

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

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

Nobody owns me or my music.

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

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.

There's more to life than physical and material.

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

"I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

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

Success to me does not mean money.

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.

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