Bob Marley Quotes - Page 11

You have to be someone.

Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

My feet is my only carriage.

Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

Well, what we know Is not what they tell us We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Light up the darkness

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can't wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.

All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.