Top 206 Quotes & Sayings by Ziggy Marley - Page 2

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

Nobody owns me or my music.

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.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

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.

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.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

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

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

Success to me does not mean money.

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

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

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.

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.

Children are not a burden.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

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.

A record is a message, timeless.

I run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

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

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

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.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

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.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

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

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

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.

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

People love me everywhere I go.

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.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

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

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

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

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

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

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.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

I've never read one book about my father.

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

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

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.