Top 70 Reggae Quotes

I find the production in ‘A&E’ very beautiful, it reminds me of Ace Of Base, the way the bass has that space and the reggae.

A lot of Indian musicians settled abroad are fusing Indian music with reggae which I find very impressive.

And there’s some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

I’ve always been a huge reggae fan.

My parents are from Jamaica, and I love reggae music.

When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It’s always been my way, that the outside matches what’s going on with me inside.

He will go down as a legend along with Elvis and the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Bob Marley is right up there. He was a leader for reggae music – he really made it appeal to a world audience.

Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I’m happy and proud of.

My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a ‘blue spot grand’ they called it… it used up an entire rainforest to make this thing, and it had all these records in it. Some were rock, some were reggae, but a lot was blues – Ray Charles, Chuck Berry and all that stuff.

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

Reggae was always playing at home in East Ham when I was growing up. Loud music would be coming from the bedroom, and downstairs all you’d hear was the bass. My uncles had sound systems and we used to go to Jamaica a lot as a family.

Reggae is a culture. It’s easy, laid-back.

I listen to rap, reggae, Nirvana and Guns N’ Roses.

If we do a record, and there’s a reggae song, it’s not shocking to us. If we do an all hip-hop song, it’s not shocking to us. We all listen to that sort of music. It’s not about what’s in at the time; it’s what feels right to us and what we’re comfortable in doing.

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

I travelled with Neville; he is my road dog. We travelled on NXT and FCW before that. He opened my eyes to a whole genre of music in reggae.

Reggae is vile.

Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life – and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.

I’m an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.

There’s no real music scene in Guyana, but there’s a music space. So there’s no scene because there’s no economy for it, but there’s a space because everything that spills over dancehall and reggae, spills over.

Reggae music don’t really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don’t mean black people. It mean people in general.

I grew up with reggae music.

In the early part of the ’70s, we had glam rock, but we also had reggae and ska happening at the same time. I just took all those influences I had as a kid and threw them together, and somehow it works.

I don’t think you can mix classical music and reggae. It’s not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.

In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and on their breaks, they might go see the reggae band that’s right next door. You might get the musicians from the reggae band to sit in with the brass musicians. Everyone is having fun.

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

I’ve seen the harshest of reggae purists come give me my props because I’ve been at it for so long… They’ve seen me come from the hardest of hard-core dancehall to where I am, and they’ve heard my music change through the years. Some might not agree, but they respect.

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

I don’t have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

My dad used to play reggae and Afrobeats. Every Sunday, we used to have these records, vinyls. And he would just play all of them – Super Cat, Ninja Man, Buju Banton.

At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston – it was kind of random.

Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to ’80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.

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

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones’ feeling, anyone’s feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

I find reggae is really nice in the morning.

I’ve been listening to a lot of dance, hip-hop, drum-and-bass, reggae, R&B – very rhythmical music.

I listened to a lot of reggae music, a lot of Caribbean, a lot of gospel, a lot of rock, a lot of country, hip-hop… you know, so it just gave me perspective when it came to music and what I liked.

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music – it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that’s what music is about.

Look, the Jamaican dancehall stuff, the reggae influences and the ska influence, are always going to be part of our DNA.

I’ve never shied away from country. ‘Karma Chameleon’ verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There’s a correlation.

Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.

With my music, I don’t have to stay in one lane. One day I’m in Motown, and the next day I’m in reggae.

Reggae music isn’t Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.

My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.

I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn’t care to be defined. People wondered, ‘Is it reggae? Is it rock?’ But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that’s what matters.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It’s the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.

We want to sound modern, but we’re still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.

I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.

I love good rock’n’roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

My background was Rude Boys, Teddy Boys, rockabillys and skinheads. I was into reggae and Blondie and The Cure, and especially The Specials – these black and white guys getting it together. Extreme personalities. Extreme talent.

I don’t watch TV. Only while I’m doing it do I see it, really. So I don’t know anything. I only know old reggae artists. So that’s my thing. Old reggae artists and martial arts.

Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.

I have to give credit to my mum for my music taste. She’s white and Welsh but she listens to dancehall, reggae, Reggaeton.’

Creatively, I’ve always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is ‘OMI.’

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren’t accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

30058 is the ZIP Code I grew up in in Atlanta, so the music represents where I’m from, and the mindset of ‘30058.’ It’s got a touch of reggae and a hip-hop feel. It’s soothing, I think.