Quotes by Ziggy Marley

• 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.
• 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.
• In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
• 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.
• Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
• Love is more than one thing.
• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
• Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
• Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
• The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
• 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.
• 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.
• There's more to life than physical and material.
• 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.
• URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
• 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.
• Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
• Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
• 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.
• 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.
• I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
• 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.
• I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
• 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 it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
• I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
• I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
• I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
• 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.
• If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.
• I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
• 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.
• 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 am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
• 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.
• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
• I'm always in love.
• I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
• 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.
• I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
• I like Flea, I like him as a musician.