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Today, Music Is Great For Entertainment, But It Is Lacking Soul; It's Lacking Substance, And It's Difficult To Find Good Stuff. There Are Too Many Corporate Interests. It's Not About The Actual Music Because It's About The Corporation, And Music Just Becomes Part Of A Package.

-Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley

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Today, Music Is Great For Entertainment, But It Is Lacking Soul; It's Lacking Substance, And It's Difficult To Find Good Stuff. There Are Too Many Corporate Interests. It's Not About The Actual Music Because It's About The Corporation, And Music Just Becomes Part Of A Package.

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People Believe That There's No Room For Change, There's No Room To Grow And If We're Talking About This Idea Of God Which Is The Infinite Then There's No Way That There's No Room To Grow Because Infinity Is Endless. So There Must Be More Room To Understand More And To Evolve The Way We Think About This Idea.

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.

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I Like Doing Nothing, Actually. Doing Nothing Is Better Thing When I Am Not Working.

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Growing Up, Music Was An Important Part Of My Childhood. I See It Being Just As Important In My Children And All Children's Growth And Development, And In A Parent's Connection With Their Children.

Kids Are An Important Audience To Reach For The Future Of The Planet.

I'm Not So Much Into The Beats. I'm More Into The Spiritual Side Of The Music.

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It Takes Years To Develop Into The Kind Of Human Being You Want To Be.

Yoga Is A Great Thing And Meditation Is Also Great To Get Connected To Yourself More.

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I'm Not An American, Do They Count The Votes In America? I Haven't Voted In Jamaica Either.

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The Idea Of Who My Father Is To Me Is Very Different Than Who He Is To You, Or To The Rest Of The World.

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People Are Loving Me Because They Don't Even Know Me. "you're Bob's Son. We Love You." So I Think That's A Good Thing For A Father To Leave So Much That People Are Loving Their Children. I'm Proud Of That.

The People Who Are Teaching Religion And Not Teaching Love Are Missing The Message.

I've Been In Africa, America, Moving Around A Lot. It's Helped Me To Open Up My Mind. I Was Born In Jamaica; I've Lived All My Life There And Got All I Could From Jamaica. But I Needed To Be Somewhere Else To Grow.

I Believe We Are All Connected To Other People. I Am Connected To People Who Are Suffering. We All Are.

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.

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.

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I Don't Fight Creativity. I Don't Fight Against Not Being Creative. If I'm Not Being Creative, I'm Not Forcing It.

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Hemp Is A Part Of The Cannabis Plant And It Is Very Useful.

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I Follow The Universe; I Follow G-d. G-d Made The Sun, And The Sun Shines On Everyone.

Politics, Nature, And What Is Happening All Over The World Is Important To Who We Are And Where We Live.

My Best Business Decision Was To Be Independent As A Musician And Artist. My Worst Was Compromising On Certain Aspects Of A Deal For The Sake Of Other Members Of My Group When I Shouldn't Have, Because I Was Right In The End.

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.

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.

Kids Out There Now Have Learning Issues. Having Mental Issues. And Everybody Is Looking Towards What Drug To Give Them, But Is Anyone Looking At The Food That The Children Are Eating? What You're Eating Has A Big Impact.

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.

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.

Food Is An Important Part, Not Just In Our Physical Well-being, But In Our Psychological Well-being.

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.

In My Songs, The Sex Is All Subliminal. It's Subliminal, Spiritual.

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 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.

If I'm Doing A Concert, And I'm Having A Problem With The Audience... I Just Play A Bob Marley Song, And I'm Good For The Rest Of The Night.

No Matter The Bad Things That Happened In Past Time, Let's Try To Live The Best We Can Now.

Some Of My Songs I Don't Do On Tour Because They Don't Work Well Live.

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.

As A Viewer, I Love Watching Movies. There Has To Be An Emotional Connection.

Emotional Connection

Old Music Used To Mean Something. There Is None Of That Today.

My Father Speaks For Himself, Through His Music.

Urge Is A Grassroots Charity. We Organized To Get Some Incubators To Give To The Hospital For The Kids. We Donate Money To Orphanages.

I Learned From My Father That Music Is From God And The Message Is From God.

Each Father Wants Their Sons To Be Just Like Them, Really.

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.

The Revolution Will Come From The People And The Willingness To Work Towards Something Better, To Fight For A Better Living.

I'm My Own Psychologist.

My Father Was Interested In Bringing Reggae Music To The Entire World.

God Is Like The Sun. When The Sun Shines, It Shines For Everyone. God Is For Everyone.

I Love Running In Nature. I Don't Like Running On The Streets, I Don't Like Running In The City, I Don't Like Running On The Concrete. I Love Running In Nature, So Jamaica Provides A Lot Of That For Me.

I Want The People Who Listen To My Music To Feel The Feeling That I Feel, To Cry The Cry That I Cry - Justice. I Want Them To Feel In Their Hearts The Need For Justice.

I Want To Be Fulfilled In Myself, Rather Than Try To Follow Exactly In My Father's Footsteps.

I Wouldn't Mind Doing More In The Kid's World Because I Think That Might Be Just Where I Can Be Most Useful To Society, To The Planet, If I Can Speak To Children.

"i’m Not Catholic, I’m Not Orthodox…" And I Wouldn’t Even Say Rastafarian, That Still Divides People, I Don’t Want To Divide People So Anything That I Say Is Something That Must Be So Big And Great That It Did Encompass Everyone And It’s Love.

I Think It's Wrong The Way They Criminalize Herb. There Are Many More Uses Than Just Smoking. Beneficial To Mankind.

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I Was 12 When My Father Passed, So I Didn't Have A Father During My Teenage Years.

There Is Always A Way And Always Hope In The Next Sunrise, And In The Next Second, And In The Next Minute.

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.

Some Guys That Know Me From When I Was A Kid Say "my Son, Oh He's Just Like Your Father." It's Just A Natural Part Of Our Lives. But, Within The Music Industry And Within The Industry Of The Critiques Of Music, Where It Becomes "ziggy's Music Is Not As Good As Bob's Music," I Don't Understand. But I Don't Really Pay Much Attention To That Because I'm Just Expressing Myself.

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.

The African-american Community Still Needs To Come Together As One And Stand Up For Rights Of The People And Of What's Happening In Their Culture, Their Community.

I Can Feel My Father's Spirit Within Me. I Can Feel Similarities Within Us From The Artistic Perspective From Being A Musician. We Have A Lot Of Similarities.

Love Is More Than One Thing.

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

It's Very Important That We Instill Some Respect For The Parents. In America Especially, The Kids Are Unruly, Screaming At Mommy And Daddy, Running The Show.

Things Like Lack Of Leadership And A Lack Of The Willingness To Evolve, They’re So Used To Keeping People Within The Constraints Of The Idea That Has Been The Same Idea For A Thousand Years.

I Am A Compassionate Human Being. I Am Who I Am.

I've Never Read One Book About My Father.

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.

Religion Has Become So Many Different Things. Religion Is An Economic Thing For Some People. Religion Is A Gun.

My Father, We Bumped Heads When I Was Younger, Much Younger... I Had Different Ideas That I Shared With Him. He Didn't Like Them As Much. He Gets Upset Or Whatever. I Guess I Had A Strong Opinion From When I Was A Little Boy.

My Father, His Spirit Is With Me Constantly, And I'm A Believer In That World And The World Of Dreams And That Stuff.

Critical Spirit

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.

Hopefully People Hear That A Part Of What Hurts Society Has A Lot To Do With The Diet, The Food That You're Eating. So Let's Be Careful.

The Roots Of My Music Start From The Ghetto.

It's Hard To Say A Favorite Song Of My Father's. I Listen To All His Stuff; A Lot Of The Old Stuff Before The '70s.

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 God Surrounds Us, In All Different Manifestations Of The Energy.

Doing Something That Is Productive Is A Great Way To Alleviate Emotional Stress. Get Your Mind Doing Something That Is Productive.

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.

Social Revolutions And Group Revolutions Are Good, And We Need That, But We Also Need Personal Revolution - Revolution Within Ourselves That Change Who We Are As People.

My Father's Songs Don't Intimidate Me; My Father's Songs Are My Songs. My Songs Are His Songs. There's No Intimidation.

My Father And I Had A Really Good Relationship. We're Cool. I Am Not Trying To Outdo Him Or Anything Like That.

Good Relationship

The Last Thing My Father Told Me Was: 'on Your Way Up, Take Me Up. On Your Way Down, Don't Let Me Down.' A Father Telling His Son That Puts Some Responsibility On My Shoulders. He Told Me That, And I Take It Very Seriously.

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.

The People Don't Run The System; The People Are Victims Of The System. The People Choose The Leaders Thinking That They Will Help Them. But When They Turn Around, There Is No Help.

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