Top 194 Reggae Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 28, 2024.
Music and fashion really do go hand in hand. This is even going back to the reggae days.
I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.
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!
I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.
With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.
I've been listening to a lot of dance, hip-hop, drum-and-bass, reggae, R&B - very rhythmical music.
I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.
I travelled with Neville; he is my road dog. We travelled on NXT and FCW before that. He opened my eyes to a whole genre of music in reggae.
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.
As crazy as it sounds, I really think that God just put the reggae thing in me. I can point to a few things in my life that pushed me in that direction.
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.
I listen to some rap music. I'm from the Bahamas so I like reggae as well. And then I slow it down with a little Frank Sinatra.
I'll take anyone to task about UB40. They were as important as Bob Marley in getting reggae into the consciousness of British youth at that time. I'm proud to be their number one fan.
Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?
I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
One of my favorite reggae songs is Wayne Wonder's 'No Letting Go.' And Sizzla 'Give Me A Try.' That's one of my favorite songs as well.
I find the production in 'A&E' very beautiful, it reminds me of Ace Of Base, the way the bass has that space and the reggae.
Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.
I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
If you look at reggae and dancehall artists in general, there isn't really a big success story. A Shabba Ranks or a Yellowman might have a hit, but there's never a follow up. There's no consistency.
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.
Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.
My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.
I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.
I have to give credit to my mum for my music taste. She's white and Welsh but she listens to dancehall, reggae, Reggaeton.'
He will go down as a legend along with Elvis and the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Bob Marley is right up there. He was a leader for reggae music - he really made it appeal to a world audience.
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?
30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I'm from, and the mindset of '30058.' It's got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It's soothing, I think.
My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'
When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.
When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
A lot of Indian musicians settled abroad are fusing Indian music with reggae which I find very impressive.
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.
This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach
Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
Sound has always followed me. A lot of reggae when mum was cooking. I'd write songs with my dad or play him anything I'd worked on.
I never necessarily played the music I listen to. I've always liked a lot of soul, roots-reggae, alternative psych-rock, and I feel like, with age, that's kind of come.
