Jamaican Music Quotes

• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Stupid, Forever

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

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• Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Style, Hearing, Rest Of Your Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Spiritual, Expression, Jamaica

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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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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• If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Helping, Jamaicans

  Source: www.gq.com

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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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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• The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Sad, Deep Thought

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• That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Biblical, Historical, Black

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Song

  Bob Marley (2012). “The Future Is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley”, p.67, Crown Archetype

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• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Ambition, White

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• Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Music

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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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• 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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• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

  Bob Marley

  Tattoo, Rasta, Slavery

  "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

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• I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Music, God

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• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Sadness

  Bob Marley (1998). “The Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)”, p.37, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• One love, one heart, one destiny.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Anniversary, Heart

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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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• One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Pain, Fighting, Forever

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• The UK is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the UK which I love.

  Damian Marley

  Community, Family And Friends, Culture

  Interview with James Walsh, www.mtv.co.uk. July 10, 2012.

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