Peter Tosh famous quotes

04-17-2025

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
-- Peter Tosh

#Marijuana
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
-- Peter Tosh

#Song #People #Want
I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
-- Peter Tosh

#Dust
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?
-- Peter Tosh

#Earthquakes #Axes #Tilt
Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.
-- Peter Tosh

#Beautiful #Brother #Flower
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
-- Peter Tosh

#Philosophy #Crowns #Bears
It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.
-- Peter Tosh

#Men
I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
-- Peter Tosh

#Thinking #Feel Good #Goodness
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
-- Peter Tosh

#Truth #Guilty #Found
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
-- Peter Tosh

#Love #Song #Snow
It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
-- Peter Tosh

#Spiritual #Balance #Wheels
I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
-- Peter Tosh

#Rights #Justice #Needs
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
-- Peter Tosh

#Inspiration #Garden
Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
-- Peter Tosh

#Trying #Bottom
I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
-- Peter Tosh

#Mean #Flesh #Spirit
Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.
-- Peter Tosh

#Trying #West #East
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.
-- Peter Tosh

#Play #People #Guy
I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
-- Peter Tosh

#Way #My Way
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
-- Peter Tosh

#Suffering #Politician #Consequence
What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
-- Peter Tosh

#Positivity
If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.
-- Peter Tosh

#Heart #Soul #Mind
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
-- Peter Tosh

#Thinking #Numbers #People
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon
-- Peter Tosh

#Reggae
I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
-- Peter Tosh

#Regret #Men #Long
I man don't come red, I come Black
-- Peter Tosh

#Men #Black #Red
If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
-- Peter Tosh

#Singers #Revolutionary
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
-- Peter Tosh

#Aspects Of Life #Aspect
You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing/you can do anything that you want to.
-- Peter Tosh

#Laughing #Want #Casts

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