Ziggy Marley Quotes

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

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.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music ... I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

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

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

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.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

Success to me does not mean money.

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.

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.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

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

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.

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.

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

Love is more than one thing.

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.

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.

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.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

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

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

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

I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

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

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

I'm always in love.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

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.

There's more to life than physical and material.

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.

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

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

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

Children are not a burden.

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.

I'm into anything that really helps children.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

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 was my dad's idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it's right, I use music in that light.

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

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.

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

What inspires me is the universe.

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

Love is my religion.
Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.

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 wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

People love me everywhere I go.

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It's just a part of the cycle of our lives, we're born, we have eyes, we have music.

The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.

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.

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

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.

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'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

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

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.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

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 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.

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.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

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.

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.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

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

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.

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

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

I've never read one book about my father.

To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.

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.