Ziggy Marley Quotes

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.

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

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.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

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.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

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.

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

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

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

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

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.

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.

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

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

I'm my own psychologist.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

Love is more than one thing.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

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

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

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.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.