Reggae Quotes - Page 3

• In this bright future you can't forget your past.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Dream, Future

  Song: No Woman, No Cry

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• Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Dream, Future

  Song: Zimbabwe, Album: Survival, 1979

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• Tell the children the truth.

  Bob Marley

  Children, Truth, Classic

  Song: Babylon System, Album: Survival, 1979

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• The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Weekend

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• I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

  Bob Marley

  Journey, Jamaican Music, Reggae Music

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• Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Memories, Laughter

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• You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

  Bob Marley

  Love, Relationship, Women

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• Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Beautiful, Hurt

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• the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

  Bob Marley

  Philosophy, Light, Rasta

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• 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.

  Peter Tosh

  Beautiful, Feel Good, World

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• In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.

  Kwame Dawes

  Song, Artist, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Writing, Poetry, Political

  "I did my own thing". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Get Up, Stand Up" (song) (1973).

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• Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Conceited

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• Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace.

  Bob Marley

  Running, Mean, Race

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• Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Media, Radio

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• Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Music Is, Reggae Music

  "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Fighting

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

  Bob Marley

  Struggle, Men, Jamaica

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• We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Peace, Fighting

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• I've always been a huge reggae fan.

  Ville Valo

  Fans, Huge

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• I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

  Dave Wakeling

  Beautiful, Mean, Hopeful

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Reggae is my heart ♥ reggae is my soul

  Bob Marley

  Heart, Soul, My Heart

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