Peter Tosh Quotes

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon

I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

What the Rastaman represents is positivity.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

I man don't come red, I come Black

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.

I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.

You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing/you can do anything that you want to.