Marley Quotations

I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!

Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.

I am a leader, so 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.

When you throw on a Bob Marley record, it's nothing but lighters up in the air. All the thugs in the dance are just going calm down. I don't know no other artist that you can throw in the middle of a dance like that.

I was pretty confident the book would be big, but not this big, Marley & Me.

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.

Freshman year we traveled to Jamaica and had our heads turned around by that reggae rhythm. It was just after Bob Marley returned to his home country after the assassination attempt and self-exile; the country was exploding with reggae.

Marley strolled like a runaway locomotive strolls. (He) was young and wired, with the attention span of algae and the volatility of nitroglycerine.

When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.

we'd contact Bob Marley and ask him to come back for one last concert.

those that have prescribed the solution through the good feeling of the music itself, like the Beatles and Bob Marley and Bob Dylan.

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest.

These people were not afraid to use their voice and speak for the people. Marley was a global force because he used his voice and never held back. That is the same message in the 'Risse' lyrics.

I listen to everything - all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

General end up inna funeral, now dem want I fi come ah dem Yard!Those devils have been around for thousands of years....trying to separate us by creating super stars, Bob Marley was my student from the moment he picked up a guitarMi tired fi hear songs bout shake yah f**king booty and Baby I Love you, dem songs ah play 24 hours on the radio, right now people tired fi hear that Bumboclaat!

I definitely wanted to have a good time listening to this album. If you listen to Bob Marley records, you just sit back and party to them. I wanted this record to be like (that): You chill out, no matter what.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated,

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Marley was dead: to begin with.

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.