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