Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Tosh
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?
Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?
My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.
My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?
Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.
I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.
Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.
If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west,
Some stand aside to try their best.
Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small.
They just can't even find no food at all.
I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
I man don't come red, I come Black
I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.
You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing/you can do anything that you want to.
There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing
I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.
I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music
Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.
It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celestial. I am celestial, mon. I am here, there and everywhere. I live among men so I must adjust myself. When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too, mon.
Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.
I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.
To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.
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