Reggae Quotes - Page 6

• Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Fun, Boys

  "Roth still 'Runnin' with the Devil' on bluegrass tribute". John Gerome, The Associated Press, June 5, 2006.

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• The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.

  Tim Finn

  Strong, People, Hip Hop

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• I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

  Jerry Hall

  Rocks, Littles, Rock N Roll

  "Jerry Hall turns 57! Looking back at her hottest fashions and fierce Texan one-liners" by Lucy Buckland, www.mirror.co.uk. July 02, 2013.

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• I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

  Anne Lamott

  Taste In Music, Sophisticated, Folks

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• I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

  Bruno Mars

  Beautiful, Song, Hawaii

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• For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

  Kwame Dawes

  Simple, Space, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Character, Style

  "Q&A: Snoop Dogg and Diplo on Jamaican Inspiration, Bob Marley's Legacy". Interview with Jeff Rosenthal, www.rollingstone.com. July 31, 2012.

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• A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

  Wyclef Jean

  Half, Bob, Marley

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• In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

  Colin Hay

  Guitar, Singing, Sitting

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• Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Plant, Grows

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• You’re that lady,” Leo said. “The one who was named after Caribbean music.” Her eyes glinted murderously. “Caribbean music.” “Yeah. Reggae?” Leo shook his head. “Merengue? Hold on, I’ll get it.” He snapped his fingers. “Calypso!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Calypso, Yeah

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.282, Penguin UK

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• You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever... All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Thinking, People, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.

  Jazzie B

  People, Sick, Community

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• In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

  Moby

  House, Hip Hop, Way

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

  Brian Regan

  Dirty, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds. That kind of gets covered in every genre of music, so it could be a rock sample, jazz, soul, reggae.

  Alexander Spit

  Song, Soul, Jazz

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get worn out and go somewhere else in the house. And if you played reggae all the time, people ended up leaning against the walls and nodding their head. But if you mixed it up, the floor got more and more packed, and the energy from the two types of music seemed to feed into each other, and the adrenaline from the punk, and the seductive sway of the reggae seemed to fit together.

  Dave Wakeling

  Wall, Crazy, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to be logical and use international words so people can relate to reggae music. I'm the inventor of the word reggae music. I'm the one who coined the word reggae. So, whatever I put out on my label - my label called D & F Music - it has to be positive.

  Toots Hibbert

  People, Being Positive, Logical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm never proud of myself. No. People are always proud of me, but I think people can always be greater than me. People call me great; I don't think that I'm great. But they say, "You are the inventor for the word reggae, you are great." And I have to say, "Okay, thank you."

  Toots Hibbert

  Thinking, People, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you go to Jamaica, you're going to these all-inclusive resorts where they're playing calypso and a bit of reggae or whatever. But if you go to Kingston, it's run-and-gun battles in the streets, it's abject poverty, it's incredible violence - and then also the best parties in the world. But if you're white, you can't really go. I'd rather know the real deal than be playing in the sand.

  Shane Smith

  Real, Party, Battle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

  Kreesha Turner

  Trying, Elements, Caribbean

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.

  Susan Olsen

  Years, Reunion, Brady Bunch

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

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• I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

  Dule Hill

  Boys, Islands

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• Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

  Kode9

  Echoes, Space, Track

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• People are like, 'What do you mean you don't listen to 115 different types of music?'. You can't just listen to The Smiths anymore. But then there are plenty of people that do only listen to five bands and six albums and that's it. My playlists are massively varied. There's never a theme throughout, it's never like everything is based in funk or based in reggae or whatever. It's 210BPM gabber-style techno and 40BPM reggae in the same list and it's like, yeah, they work.

  Adam Faulkner

  Mean, People, Different

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