Top 206 Quotes & Sayings by Ziggy Marley
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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.
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
I'm always in love.
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.
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.
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.
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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.
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 think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
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.
There's more to life than physical and material.
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 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.
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
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.
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 used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
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 don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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.
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
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 like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.
I like Flea, I like him as a musician.
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.
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.
The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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.
The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
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.
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.
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.
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 prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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.
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.
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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.
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.
Love is more than one thing.
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
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