Peter Tosh Quotes

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

What the Rastaman represents is positivity.

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.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

I man don't come red, I come Black

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?

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body ... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

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 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?

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

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.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

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..

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

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.

I don't think the label cares about an album ... People just want their number-one record.