Quotes By Ziggy Marley

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.

Love is more than one thing.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

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

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

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

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.

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 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.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

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 like Flea, I like him as a musician.

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

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

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

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

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.

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 music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

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