Top 88 Ziggy Marley Quotes

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.

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.

I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.

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.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

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.

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

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.

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

I don’t chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.

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.

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

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

My father’s songs don’t intimidate me; my father’s songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There’s no intimidation.

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

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’m a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it’s important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you’re saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

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.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It’s about feeding them something with meaning.

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

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

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

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.

I don’t think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

I’ve never read one book about my father.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

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

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It’s part of our culture.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

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.

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.

Love is more than one thing.

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’m inspired to do music. I really can’t stop unless I stop being inspired.

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.

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.

I’d rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

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.

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.

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.

Even if I wasn’t in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go ‘You’re just like Bob. You’re just like your father.’ That happens in Jamaica all the time.

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

If it is, it is, If it’s not, it’s not.

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.

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

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.

I run four times a week. And I don’t count miles – I don’t do that. I don’t care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.

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

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

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

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It’s subliminal, spiritual.

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.

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.

I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.

It’s natural that anyone is compared to their father.

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

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

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.

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

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

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

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

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 think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

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.

People love me everywhere I go.

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.

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.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.