Ziggy Marley famous quotes

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion
-- Ziggy Marley

#Book #Believe #Love Is

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Cheer #Love Is #Compassion

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

#Inspirational Life #Past #Trying

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Forgiveness #Dream #Good Life

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind
-- Ziggy Marley

#Sky #Rainbow #Blind

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Dog #Eye #Animal

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Honesty #Lying #Self

Love is more than one thing.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Love Is

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Believe #Tree #Alive

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Philosophy #Ideas #People

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Taken #Blood #Red

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Party #Heart #Kids

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

#Marijuana #Thinking #Smoking

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Thinking #Jamaica #People

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Mean #Artist #Leader

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Journey #Limits #Reggae

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Thinking #Dragonflies #Hovering

It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Dad #Ideas #Light

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers
-- Ziggy Marley

#Independent #People #Community

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

#Love #Thinking #Should

There's more to life than physical and material.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Redemption #More To Life #Materials

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Play #Judging #Care

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Gun #People #Different

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true
-- Ziggy Marley

#Sorry #Heart #No Hope

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Mother #Father #Blood

I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Sunshine #Moon #Government

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Justice #Trying #Balance

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Mean #Today #Used

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Play #Guitar #Kind

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
-- Ziggy Marley

#America #Jamaica #Problem

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

#Spiritual #Song #Sex

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Nice #Hypnosis #Surfing

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Believe #Ideas #Giving

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

#Couple #Years

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Play #House #Cuz

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

#America #Jamaica #Vote

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

#Country #Tree #Country Life

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #Good Relationship #Trying

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Spiritual #Cousin #Grandmother

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Thinking #Energy #Different

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Essentials #Music Is #Teach

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Creativity #Fighting #Creative

Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Believe #Love Is #Hey

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Spiritual #Religious #Political

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Jamaica #Coconuts #Flavor

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

#Chance #Experiments

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #Thinking #Artist

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Life #Fighting #Accepting

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Ghetto #Roots

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #Trying #Kind

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Artist #Jamaica #Different

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Who I Am #I Am Who I Am #Compassionate

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Dream #Father #World

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #People #Generations

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Jamaica #People #Elements

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Strong #Kings #Culture

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #Different #Type

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Real #Gmos #Long

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
-- Ziggy Marley

#Mean #Slim #Chance

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #World #Reggae

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Stress #Emotional #Mind

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

#Hate #Thinking #People

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Eye #Thinking #Dna

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Spiritual #Love Is

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Philosophy #Moving #Play

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

#Yoga #Meditation #Great Things

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Kids #Giving #Charity

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #Thinking #Proud

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

#Bird #Pet #Littles

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

#Teacher #Teaching #Jamaica

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Important

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

#Waiting #Realizing

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

#Shining #Sun

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Artist #Accomplishment #Want

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Money #People #Political

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Branches #Radio #Legends

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Children #Needs #World

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Doing Nothing

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Hurt #People #Alcohol

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
-- Ziggy Marley

#People #Feel Good #Want

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

#Oxygen #Bird #Tree

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Dinner

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Deals

People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
-- Ziggy Marley

#People #Energy #Scared

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Father #Trying #Want

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Giving #People #Choices

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted,
-- Ziggy Marley

#Causes #Reggae #Easy

Success to me does not mean money.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Mean #Doe

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Strong #Father #Boys

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Love Is #Negative

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Soccer #Sports #Priorities

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Men #Thinking #Purpose

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.
-- Ziggy Marley

#Thinking #Knowing #Personality