Quotes By Ziggy Marley

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.

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

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.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

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

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

There's more to life than physical and material.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.