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Ziggy Marley
Musician
About the author
I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Old
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Being
#Thought
#Living
#Trees
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Birds
#Pet
#Mouse
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Music
#Hearing
#Learning
#Personality
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Wrong
#Mankind
#Smoking
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Love
#Policy
#Americans
#Foreign policy
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Life
#Country
#Trees
I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Nothing
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#World
#Experience
#Living
#Artist
If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#People
#American
#Hate
I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Body
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Play
#Care
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Journey
#Limits
I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Right
#Leaders
#Artist
#Leader
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#God
#Sun
I'm always in love.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Love
I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#American
#America
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Family
#Eyes
I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Years
I like Flea, I like him as a musician.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Life
#God
#People
#Being
#Peace
#Dream
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#People
#Money
#Economy
#Benefits
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#God
#Man
#Purpose
#Religion
#Nature
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Songs
#Spiritual
#Sex
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Play
#Music
#Guitar
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Problems
#America
Love is more than one thing.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Love
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Time
#Now
#Past
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#People
#Religion
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Time
The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Will
#Food
#Music
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#People
#Meeting
#Traveling
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Love
#Woman
#Spiritual
There's more to life than physical and material.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Life
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Right
#Thinking
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Kids
#Money
#Charity
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Want
#People
#Problems
#Paradise
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Time
#Chance
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Meditation
#Yoga
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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Time
#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.
Ziggy Marley,
Musician
#Father
#Artist