Desmond Dekker Quotes

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

You can get it if you really want

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.