Quotes By Ziggy Marley

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

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

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

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.

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.

Love is more than one thing.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

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.

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.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

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 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 don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

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

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.

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.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

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

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

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