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Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel. ~ Tori Kelly
Reggae quotes by Tori Kelly
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand? ~ Burning Spear
Reggae quotes by Burning Spear
You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag! ~ Blake Lively
Reggae quotes by Blake Lively
My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant. ~ Stephen Marley
Reggae quotes by Stephen Marley
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
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. ~ Shameik Moore
Reggae quotes by Shameik Moore
Dub and reggae ... I play that a lot around the house. ~ Gavin Rossdale
Reggae quotes by Gavin Rossdale
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
I describe me sound as international: reggae, pop, rap, R&B all in one. I think I have my own style. I can't really even describe it. People say, "What type of genre is your music?" It's Sean Kingston genre. I have my own genre. No disrespect to no artist or dudes out there. I feel like I am my own person. I am doing my own thing. ~ Sean Kingston
Reggae quotes by Sean Kingston
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae. ~ Lupe Fiasco
Reggae quotes by Lupe Fiasco
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. ~ Matisyahu
Reggae quotes by Matisyahu
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get worn out and go somewhere else in the house. And if you played reggae all the time, people ended up leaning against the walls and nodding their head. But if you mixed it up, the floor got more and more packed, and the energy from the two types of music seemed to feed into each other, and the adrenaline from the punk, and the seductive sway of the reggae seemed to fit together. ~ Dave Wakeling
Reggae quotes by Dave Wakeling
Under the twinkling trees was a table covered with Guatemalan fabric, roses in juice jars, wax rose candles from Tijuana and plates of food - Weetzie's Vegetable Love-Rice, My Secret Agent Lover Man's guacamole, Dirk's homemade pizza, Duck's fig and berry salad and Surfer Surprise Protein Punch, Brandy-Lynn's pink macaroni, Coyote's cornmeal cakes, Ping's mushu plum crepes and Valentine's Jamaican plantain pie. Witch Baby's stomach growled but she didn't leave her hiding place. Instead, she listened to the reggae, surf, soul and salsa, tugged at the snarl balls in her hair and snapped pictures of all the couples. ~ Francesca Lia Block
Reggae quotes by Francesca Lia Block
I grew up with reggae music. ~ Youssou N'Dour
Reggae quotes by Youssou N'Dour
My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby. ~ Coby Bell
Reggae quotes by Coby Bell
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. ~ Jimmy Cliff
Reggae quotes by Jimmy Cliff
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? ~ Peter Tosh
Reggae quotes by Peter Tosh
The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense. ~ Tim Finn
Reggae quotes by Tim Finn
I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae. ~ B.o.B
Reggae quotes by B.o.B
I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion. ~ Susan Olsen
Reggae quotes by Susan Olsen
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 ~ Jimmy Buffett
Reggae quotes by Jimmy Buffett
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it. ~ Damian Marley
Reggae quotes by Damian Marley
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. ~ Jerry Hall
Reggae quotes by Jerry Hall
This was an era where you were defined by the music you listened to and the clothes you wore. You wouldn't find a skinhead listening to King Crimson, or a Rocker listening to blue beat or reggae. It wasn't allowed. ~ Karl Wiggins
Reggae quotes by Karl Wiggins
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon ~ Peter Tosh
Reggae quotes by Peter Tosh
Love hard when there is love to be had. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
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!' ~ Sean Paul
Reggae quotes by Sean Paul
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works. ~ Jean Francois Lyotard
Reggae quotes by Jean Francois Lyotard
In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment. ~ Moby
Reggae quotes by Moby
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. ~ Afrika Bambaataa
Reggae quotes by Afrika Bambaataa
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. ~ Ziggy Marley
Reggae quotes by Ziggy Marley
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 ~ Peter Tosh
Reggae quotes by Peter Tosh
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley. ~ Bruno Mars
Reggae quotes by Bruno Mars
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. ~ Anne Lamott
Reggae quotes by Anne Lamott
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together. ~ Laura Mvula
Reggae quotes by Laura Mvula
Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae. ~ Diana Wynne Jones
Reggae quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
Sometimes you have to fight with music. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career. ~ Abigail Washburn
Reggae quotes by Abigail Washburn
All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music. ~ Afrika Bambaataa
Reggae quotes by Afrika Bambaataa
I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums. ~ Dave Willis
Reggae quotes by Dave Willis
Aggressive music has always been a liberator for me; however, hard tunes with no soul quickly wear thin. H.R. exhibited soul where it could not be found previously. His lyrics contributed an urgency fueled by spirituality and a call to social justice, which substantiated the ferocity of the Bad Brains' earth-shattering soundscapes. This included the instances when Bad Brains broke it down to a mesmerizing, skank-drenched reggae rhythm. H.R.'s vocal style was otherworldly; ever vacillating between combative and graceful expression; all the while thrusting forth a righteous dose of rebellion served with a side of hope. ~ Howie Abrams
Reggae quotes by Howie Abrams
Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere. ~ Randy Weston
Reggae quotes by Randy Weston
If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince. ~ Marlon James
Reggae quotes by Marlon James
I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable. ~ Sean Kingston
Reggae quotes by Sean Kingston
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. ~ John Lescroart
Reggae quotes by John Lescroart
Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes. ~ Shameik Moore
Reggae quotes by Shameik Moore
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. ~ Stevie Wonder
Reggae quotes by Stevie Wonder
Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to. ~ Ella Henderson
Reggae quotes by Ella Henderson
Listening to their argument made me aware of how empty my life was, and I hated the life I was living all the more. It was quite obvious to me this lady was deeply in love, for she was fighting for what she thought to be hers. Even though I was dating two females at the time, and stringing a third one along, yet I've yet to discover that kind of love. I guess this was why my favorite song was 'I wane be love', by the Jamaican reggae super star Buru Banton. ~ Drexel Deal
Reggae quotes by Drexel Deal
The fittest of the fittest shall survive ! ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
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. ~ Damian Marley
Reggae quotes by Damian Marley
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. ~ Ziggy Marley
Reggae quotes by Ziggy Marley
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. ~ Moby
Reggae quotes by Moby
Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea. ~ Conor Oberst
Reggae quotes by Conor Oberst
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general. ~ Burning Spear
Reggae quotes by Burning Spear
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
Back in Russia, where they're still getting acclimated to the whole capitalism thing, most TV advertising took a straightforward approach to persuasion. Thus, even though I don't speak Russian, I had no trouble understanding Russian ads. They were all along the lines o: "Oh, no, there's a stain on the tablecloth! What will Mom do? Thank goodness for this effective detergent!" Not so in Japan, where sophisticated consumers have grown bored with simple persuasion, forcing advertisers to get wildly inventive. Japanese TV ads have at this point evolved into an abstract mishmash of symbols and sounds. Your average thirty-second Japanese commercial is something like: Here's a man holding a giraffe. Now the giraffe morphs into a rainbow. The rainbow is friends with a talking pencil, and they live together on a spaceship. A few seconds of laughter! A snippet of loud reggae music! Fad out. At least half the time, I have no idea what the product being advertised is or what it does. And yet I very much enjoy the ads. They're like short-acting hallucinogens. ~ Seth Stevenson
Reggae quotes by Seth Stevenson
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
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. ~ Ziggy Marley
Reggae quotes by Ziggy Marley
You're that lady," Leo said. "The one who was named after Caribbean music."
Her eyes glinted murderously. "Caribbean music."
"Yeah. Reggae?" Leo shook his head. "Merengue? Hold on, I'll get it."
He snapped his fingers. "Calypso! ~ Rick Riordan
Reggae quotes by Rick Riordan
Amy turned to Nellie. "Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?"
The au pair was wary. "What kind of diversion?"
"You could pretend to be lost," Dan proposed. "The guy comes out to give you directions, and we slip inside."
"That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction."
"Maybe you're from out of town," Dan suggested. "Wait–you are from out of town."
Nellie stashed their bags under a bench and set Saladin on the seat with a stern "You're the watchcat. Anybody touches those bags, unleash your inner tiger."
The Egyptian Mau surveyed the street uncertainly. "Mrrp."
Nellie sighed. "Lucky for us there's no one around. Okay, I'm going in there. Be ready."
The clerk said something to her–probably May I help you? She smiled apologetically. "I don't speak Italian."
"Ah–you are American." His accent was heavy, but he seemed eager to please. "I will assist you." He took in her black nail polish and nose ring. "Punk, perhaps, is your enjoyment?"
"More like a punk/reggae fusion," Nellie replied thoughtfully. "With a country feel. And operatic vocals."
The clerk stared in perplexity.
Nellie began to tour the aisles, pulling out CDs left and right. "Ah–Artic Monkeys–that's what I'm talking about. And some Bad Brains–from the eighties. Foo Fighters–I'll need a couple from those guys. And don't forget Linkin Par ~ Gordon Korman
Reggae quotes by Gordon Korman
I've always been a huge reggae fan. ~ Ville Valo
Reggae quotes by Ville Valo
Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. It is the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast. Listen to the music. Whoa whoa, listen to the music. Because music makes the people come together, it makes the bourgeois and the rebel. So come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody try to love one another. Because what the world needs now is love, sweet love. And I know that love is a battlefield, but boogie on reggae woman because you're gonna make it after all. So celebrate good times, come on. I've gotta stop I've gotta come to my senses, I've been out riding fences for so long ... oops I did it again ... um ... What I'm trying to say is, if you leave tonight and you don't remember anything else that I've said, leave here and remember this: Procrastinate now, don't put it off. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Reggae quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
Tell the children the truth. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. ~ Nas
Reggae quotes by Nas
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
Trip Advisor: Travel the World with Haiku [D]
Jerusalem, Israel
Jews pray motionless
and the Western Wall shakes.
It's all relative.

Capetown, South Africa
And the coloured girls say,
'We're not Africaans, we're English.'
In a total Africaans accent.

Bulls Bay, Jamaica
Weed, rum, guava jelly,
Reggae, Marley, Red Stripe beer,
O Baby, jerk that chicken.

Istanbul, Turkey
I asked my driver,
'Why do you believe in Allah?'
He answers: 'If not, He hit me!'

Cairo, Egypt
Cairo International Airport,
Porter drops my bags six times.
Descendents of the Pharaohs, my ass.

Santorini Island, Greece
Greeks are like the current,
They push you over and then
Try to suck you in.

Christiania, Denmark
One thousand drug dealers,
Five hundred thousand tourists.
Alway$ Chri$tma$ here.* ~ Beryl Dov
Reggae quotes by Beryl Dov
I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound. ~ Bill Laswell
Reggae quotes by Bill Laswell
My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world. ~ Ziggy Marley
Reggae quotes by Ziggy Marley
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class ... they both come from the bottom of society. ~ Damian Marley
Reggae quotes by Damian Marley
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
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. ~ Roland Gift
Reggae quotes by Roland Gift
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different. ~ Brian Regan
Reggae quotes by Brian Regan
Don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it. ~ Matisyahu
Reggae quotes by Matisyahu
I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am. ~ Tessanne Chin
Reggae quotes by Tessanne Chin
Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer. ~ Tom Bailey
Reggae quotes by Tom Bailey
One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do. ~ Matisyahu
Reggae quotes by Matisyahu
I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys. ~ Billy Sheehan
Reggae quotes by Billy Sheehan
I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre. ~ Doug Martsch
Reggae quotes by Doug Martsch
The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead. ~ Bob Marley
Reggae quotes by Bob Marley
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different ~ Travis Barker
Reggae quotes by Travis Barker
Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music. ~ Eve
Reggae quotes by Eve
I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music. ~ Dule Hill
Reggae quotes by Dule Hill
One young man who had a tattoo of a bumblebee on his arm (the symbol of his favorite reggae group) was identified as a gang member. The gang was identified as the "Killer Bee Gang." According to Department of Corrections records, the Killer Bees were a gang of one. ~ Lauraet Magnani
Reggae quotes by Lauraet Magnani
I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor
she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music. ~ Nina Persson
Reggae quotes by Nina Persson
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