Reggae Quotes

• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• love the life you live. live the life you love.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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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• Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Religious, Positivity, Men

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• Make way for the positive day.

  Bob Marley

  Rasta, Positive Vibrations, Way

  Song: Positive Vibration, Album: Rastaman Vibration

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  You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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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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• The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

  Bob Marley

  Taken, Wind, Forever

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

  Peter Tosh

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• When you lose what you love remember to stay strong. Look out the window and remember life goes on.

  Drew Chadwick

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

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• Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Philosophy, Ideas, People

  "Ziggy Marley Stirs Up Talk of His Latest Live Album". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. November 29, 2012.

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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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• I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.

  Sean Kingston

  Culture, Limits, Poverty

  "Sean Kingston on writing for Rihanna, the Kanye-Taylor Swift incident, and more: A Music Mix Q&A". Interview with Joseph Brannigan Lynch, www.ew.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

  Bob Marley

  Tattoo, Rasta, Slavery

  "Song: 'Uprising'". 1979.

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• Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Jealousy, Reality

  Song: Wake Up And Live, Album: Survival, 1979

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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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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Encouraging, Memorial Day, Freedom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Needs, Conversation

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• 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?

  Peter Tosh

  Axes, Earthquakes, Tilt

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• There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Being Yourself, Thinking

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

  Bob Marley

  Philosophy, Light, Rasta

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• Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

  Bob Marley

  Art, Men, Water

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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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