Ziggy Quotes

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

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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 ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

Music is a unifying force. ~ Ziggy Marley

Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of
Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy
Stardust. ~ FayJay

Older Fags and Younger Fags, Like Legally Young. Daddies. Zeus and Ganymede.
Ganymede was a child, Ziggy schooled her.
Yeah, You Were There, Michelle retorted, On Mount Olympus. You Were Working the Door. You Carded Ganymede. ~ Michelle Tea

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy.
"I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break. ~ Janet Evanovich

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

The roots of my music start from the ghetto. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

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

Confession Who knows more of Wanda, the wan, than I do? And who knows more of Terry, the torn, than I do? And who knows more than I do of Ziggy, the Zap, fleeing the rap, using his eyes and teeth to spring the trap, than I do! Or did. Good Lord, forbid that morning's acre, held in the palm ~ James Baldwin

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. ~ Ziggy Marley

People love me everywhere I go. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody. ~ Ziggy Marley

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 ~ Ziggy Marley

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Ziggy was Jensen's sister. Ziggy was the kid I never knew. Hanna was this uninhibited, self-possessed woman in front of me who I was pretty sure was going to effectively wreck my world. ~ Christina Lauren

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Hi, Hanna." Her mouth dropped open and her beautiful eyes went wide. "You didn't call me Ziggy." Smiling, I whispered, "I know." "Say it again?" Her voice came out husky, as if she was asking me to touch her again, to kiss her again. ~ Christina Lauren

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

There's more to life than physical and material. ~ Ziggy Marley

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation. ~ Val Kilmer

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character. ~ David Bowie

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

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful. ~ Ziggy Marley

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. ~ David Bowie

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

Michelle wasn't butch enough to mess around with men. It would be simply heterosexual, and slutty. For Ziggy and Stitch it was something else, proof of their toughness. They could tumble around with this guy and emerge from the van as queer as ever, more queer, even, and the man might now in fact be a bit queer from his time spent cracked out in Ziggy's butch bosom. ~ Michelle Tea

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

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah! ~ David Bowie

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

I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it. ~ Ziggy Marley

I've never read one book about my father. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

I'm into anything that really helps children. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

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

I'm not Catholic, I'm not Orthodox and I wouldn't even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don't want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it's love. ~ Ziggy Marley

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. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play. ~ Ziggy Marley

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

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American. ~ David Bowie

As if somehow irony," she recaps for Maxine, "as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious - weakening its grip on 'reality.' So all kinds of make-believe - forget the delusional state the country's in already - must suffer as well. Everything has to be literal now."

"Yeah, the kids are even getting it at school." Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments. Otis is terrified, Ziggy less so. Maxine will walk in on them watching Rugrats or reruns of Rocko's Modern Life, and they holler by reflex, "Don't tell Ms. Cheung!"

"You notice," Heidi continues, "how 'reality' programming is suddenly all over the cable, like dog shit? Of course, it's so producers shouldn't have to pay real actors scale. But wait! There's more! Somebody needs this nation of starers believing they're all wised up at last, hardened and hip to the human condition, freed from the fictions that led them so astray, as if paying attention to made-up lives was some form of evil drug abuse that the collapse of the towers cured by scaring everybody straight again. ~ Thomas Pynchon

Success to me does not mean money. ~ Ziggy Marley