Ziggy Marley Quotes - Page 6

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

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

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

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

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

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.

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.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

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

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

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

Children are not a burden.

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

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.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

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

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

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 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.

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.