Ziggy Marley Quotes - Page 2

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

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

It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.

There's more to life than physical and material.

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.

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

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

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

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

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.

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.

So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true

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

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

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 wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

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

Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

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.