Ziggy Marley Quotes

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Ziggy Marley

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 17, 1968

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

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

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The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

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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.

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

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

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Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

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I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

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I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

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I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

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People love me everywhere I go.

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It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

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As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

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I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

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Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

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