Rita Marley Quotes

Rita Marley

Profession : Singer

Birth : July 25, 1946

They say the good you do lives after you. Bob is one of those who proves that.

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Can you imagine he went to rest at the age of 36, and 30 years after he's still coming out with music for your listening pleasure? Not only for your dancing pleasure, but for learning at the same time. Because Bob Marley music teaches.

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Being able to express myself gave me a sense of relief.

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Bob asked his lawyer what would happen if he didn't make a will and she said: 'Your wife and children will be okay.' Which was good enough for him.

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I suffered years of criticism. But there was a point in my life where I had to stand up and say: 'I don't care what anybody says about me. I have to stand up for my family, for the four children I had with Bob and the eight he had with other women.'

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Bob's music has always conveyed a message of hope, unity and love.

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You listen to 'One Love,' you have to rock your head. You have to do something. It moves you. You cannot refuse it.

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Bob's music is therapy and entertainment.

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Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which is why his music endures. It is music that still has meaning in people's lives. And you can dance to it.

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Love is the main ingredient. If you don't love, you can't love, you can't do good things.

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My husband believed 'the herb' was a natural and positive part of life, and he felt it was important to the world.

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Bob Marley said in one of his songs: 'Can anything good come out of Trench Town?' The answer is yes.

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Water is truly the seed of life.

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I'm touring right now and you'd be surprised to see all of the kids that come to the concerts just to see Rita Marley because it's Bob Marley's wife. I might do three or four of Bob's songs in my repertoire and they go crazy.

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Sometimes I'm in Boston or Washington or Chicago and think I'm in Jamaica because I hear more reggae on the radio in these places than in Kingston!

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I'm not Bob; there will never be another Bob Marley; nobody can compete, including myself.

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I must make my own way, and when I'm into things is when I do them best. If I'm not ready to perform and I do anyway, it's like feeding the people poison.

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