Peter Tosh Quotations

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

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 can't blame people, at this rate, for not wanting to volunteer,

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

You can get through everything and cast a laugh and sing/you can do anything that you want to.

What the Rastaman represents is positivity.

I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.

I man don't come red, I come Black

Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching..

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, mon

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celestial. I am celestial, mon. I am here, there and everywhere. I live among men so I must adjust myself. When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too, mon.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Legalize it, and I will advertise it.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.