Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Rita Marley
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Jamaican singer Rita Marley.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I don't want to be labeled a star, or billed as a star. I'm a messenger, really, and when I get work to do, I have to do it.
Being able to express myself gave me a sense of relief.
One of the nicest things to do in Kingston on a Sunday is eat johnnycake, Festival and fish at Hellshire Beach.
I'm not Bob; there will never be another Bob Marley; nobody can compete, including myself.
Sometimes I'm in Boston or Washington or Chicago and think I'm in Jamaica because I hear more reggae on the radio in these places than in Kingston!
We'll be forever loving Jah, no matter what the crisis is.
I would have paid out royalties if we were still working together, carrying on Bob's tradition and generating income, but that was not happening. The Wailers didn't write the songs and they had been paid for their work in the studio.
Prince Harry embodies the spirit of Bob Marley. The Prince was engaging, he was warm. He had real spirit. He was a charming young man. He's a militant. I see that military side to him. But as we would call him, or Bob would say, he seemed to be a rebel too.
Bob's music has always conveyed a message of hope, unity and love.
We might find someone one day to do what he was doing musically, but there is only one Bob. His spirit has spread across the world.
So what that he had children with other women? He was always truthful, he always told me when another child was on the way. He would even bring the babies to me when they were born, and sometimes I would even bring them up myself.
Bob's music is therapy and entertainment.
There are a lot of great musicians in the world, but there is only, and will only ever be, one Bob Marley.
What Bob and I had was something special that God ordained. Ours was more than a husband-and-wife relationship, it was as if we had to do something for our people, to become a symbol for our time, and that feeling is still going on no matter what.
We came from nothing, from the raw poverty of Trenchtown.
Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.
Bob was chosen by my record company to help with my vocals, and our relationship developed through the music.
Bob is a normal man, just like any other man.
I didn't really like light-skinned people. I'd always thought about a tall, dark, handsome guy. But Bob had something different. He was very disciplined, just like a father figure, which I respected, especially as my own father was away.
With all the strife in the world, we must never forget that there is always a new melody, a new tune, a fresh star.
It's a natural thing, Jamaican men have a thing where they want more than one woman, and more than one pickney.
He saved me from being somebody else. I could have been prime minister, I could have been a prostitute on the streets, but I am what I am and Bob has a lot to do with that.
Love is the main ingredient. If you don't love, you can't love, you can't do good things.
It has always been the wish of Bob Marley to return to Ethiopia and become a Rastafarian.
After a stage in our marriage, me and Bob had passed being husband and wife... We came to be brother and sister and I had to accept his other sweethearts and the children they gave him.
The unique thing about Bob Marley, he writes what relates to everybody.
Whatever time we're passing through, there will always be music.
Bob Marley's in every new day. There's not one day that his music is not played all over the world.
Can you imagine he went to rest at the age of 36, and 30 years after he's still coming out with music for your listening pleasure? Not only for your dancing pleasure, but for learning at the same time. Because Bob Marley music teaches.
I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.
The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don't really feel that way. I have higher confidence in life after that transition. That's my thought. That's how I feel. I want to keep him alive.
I'm touring right now and you'd be surprised to see all of the kids that come to the concerts just to see Rita Marley because it's Bob Marley's wife. I might do three or four of Bob's songs in my repertoire and they go crazy.
I must make my own way, and when I'm into things is when I do them best. If I'm not ready to perform and I do anyway, it's like feeding the people poison.
You listen to 'One Love,' you have to rock your head. You have to do something. It moves you. You cannot refuse it.
Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.
Bob wanted me to have a baby each year, but he also wanted me to continue being a back-up singer in his band and to go on the road with him.
Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer.
We give so much to others that sometimes we tend to forget our own feelings.
I felt like I was seeing my life over again when I first arrived in Ghana. I thought, 'This is part of me.' I knew what it was like to be poor and hungry.
As Bob Marley says, 'We must carry on.' So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.
Bob was the king, and as his queen I must carry on.
People come from all over the world to sample Jamaican jerk.
I have heard people giving different testimonies about what the music has done for them, for their children, for their life, for their marriages. It's a strength to people.
We stand for more than just getting the cash and running out. This family is recognized by millions of people worldwide; we have something to stand for, and we have always thought there were more important things than money.
It was a dream of Bob Marley and it is a dream of the family to bury him in Ethiopia.
I suffered years of criticism. But there was a point in my life where I had to stand up and say: 'I don't care what anybody says about me. I have to stand up for my family, for the four children I had with Bob and the eight he had with other women.'
Anything I don't like, I don't read.
My husband believed 'the herb' was a natural and positive part of life, and he felt it was important to the world.
When Bob goes into the studio, he didn't just say, 'I'm going to do one album by itself.' No, we always had leftovers and some that were what you'd call rejects, we have those too.
To me, Bob was more than a superstar but it's good people get an idea of the real man.
Water is truly the seed of life.
They say the good you do lives after you. Bob is one of those who proves that.
You can't eat ackee without johnnycakes.
To move forward, you have to return home.
Bob asked his lawyer what would happen if he didn't make a will and she said: 'Your wife and children will be okay.' Which was good enough for him.
I try to keep that fire burning inside of me.
Bob Marley said in one of his songs: 'Can anything good come out of Trench Town?' The answer is yes.
Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which is why his music endures. It is music that still has meaning in people's lives. And you can dance to it.
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