Latest Jimmy Cliff Quotes from Interviews

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• Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Thinking, Feelings, Good Feeling

• Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Overcoming, Disease, Able

• I live between Jamaica and Paris.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Jamaica, Paris

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.

  Jimmy Cliff

  World, Return, Happenings

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Dark, Energy, Looks

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and it came from the ancient Egyptians.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Culture, Ancient, Rebirth

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Years, Law, Two

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Pain, Swimming

• Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, War, Inspiration

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Missing, Connections, Vulnerable

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

• Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Smooth Sailing, Able, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Attention, World, Outlook

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Able, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Echoes, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Love Is, Knowing, Eternal Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Echoes, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Love Is, Essence

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Shepherds, Roles, Flocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Writing, Jamaica

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think we all have a role to play in life.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Thinking, Play, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Knows, Greater

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Musical, Done, Form

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Fire, Earth, Sacred

  Source: www.pbs.org

• In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Country, Cities, People

  Source: www.gq.com