Jimmy Cliff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#New Beginnings #Hands #People
In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Country #Cities #People
I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Artist #Helping #Jamaicans
I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Giving #Soul #Satisfaction
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Artist #Smell #People
It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Mean #Ghetto #Oxygen
I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Ghetto #Want #Diplomacy
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Mean #Together #Hindsight
If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Generosity #Trying
Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Inspirational #Dream #Mind
People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?
-- Jimmy Cliff

#People #Done #Want
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Believe #Artist #Done
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#People #Hollywood #Fantastic
I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Travel #Heart #Mind
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Men #Puppets #Slave
Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Mean #Wind #Sea
Iâ€™ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact â€“ really, itâ€™s better.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Years #Voice #Stills
And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Fighting #Men #Puppets
I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Moving #Boys #Hands
Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Perseverance #Rome #Victory

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