Best 152 quotes of Ziggy Marley on MyQuotes

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

Children are not a burden.

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

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

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

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.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

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.

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant and it is very useful.

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.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

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 am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

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 believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

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.

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.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

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 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

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

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

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

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.

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.

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.

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

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true

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.

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

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

"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.

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

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