Bob Marley Quotes & Sayings

If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying. — Bob Marley

a pot a cook but the food na kno — Bob Marley

Look for things marked positive to you, like songs, because all dem things are right. — Bob Marley

She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters? — Bob Marley

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold. — Bob Marley

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear. — Bob Marley

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley

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

One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley

Complaints are prayers to the devil. — Bob Marley

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

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on. — Bob Marley

Money can't buy you life — Bob Marley

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer. — Bob Marley

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. — Bob Marley

One bright morning when my work is over I will fly away home. — Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. — Bob Marley

Life must be somewhere to be
found, instead of # ConcreteJungle . — Bob Marley

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley

The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I? — Bob Marley

And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is. — Bob Marley

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know. — Bob Marley

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny. — Bob Marley

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. — Bob Marley

Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob. — Bob Marley

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am. — Bob Marley

I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy. — Bob Marley

Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff — Bob Marley

Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system? — Bob Marley

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively — Bob Marley

Dry your tears, have no fears. — Bob Marley

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear. — Bob Marley

Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision. — Bob Marley

And no matter what games they play
we got something they could never take away — Bob Marley

The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon. — Bob Marley

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

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that. — Bob Marley

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time — Bob Marley

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can. — Bob Marley

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. — Bob Marley

Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what? — Bob Marley

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white. — Bob Marley

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard — Bob Marley

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley

Trust the universe and respekt your hair. — Bob Marley

When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too. — Bob Marley

What does rasta mean? Righteousness. — Bob Marley

Tell the children the truth. — Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.
Bob Marley (March 1981) — Bob Marley

The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose. — Bob Marley

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'cause none of them can stop the time. — Bob Marley

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections — Bob Marley

There will never be no love at all. — Bob Marley

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere. — Bob Marley

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty. — Bob Marley

Wake up and live — Bob Marley

You have to be someone. — Bob Marley

Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you — Bob Marley

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty — Bob Marley

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. — Bob Marley

I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness,
everyone doin' and they're doing their best! — Bob Marley

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from. — Bob Marley

No man can lead mean, we have to have unity. — Bob Marley

I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin — Bob Marley

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. — Bob Marley

They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up. — Bob Marley

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. — Bob Marley

Herb is the unification of mankind. — Bob Marley

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. — Bob Marley

11when love is real nobody can end it LOVES IS A KEY that someone has to open your heart — Bob Marley

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.
What we need is love
To guide and protect us on.
If you hope good down from above,
Help the weak if you are strong now. — Bob Marley

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. — Bob Marley

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth. — Bob Marley

We don't need no trouble! What we need is love! — Bob Marley

He's not perfect. You are not either — Bob Marley

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow. — Bob Marley

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. — Bob Marley

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation. — Bob Marley

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion. — Bob Marley

Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You — Bob Marley

The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead. — Bob Marley

one love, one heart — Bob Marley

Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry. — Bob Marley

You just can't live that negative way.
You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day ... — Bob Marley

The fittest of the fittest shall survive ! — Bob Marley

My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it. — Bob Marley

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me. — Bob Marley

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life. — Bob Marley

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others. — Bob Marley

Rise up this mornin',
Smile with the risin' sun. — Bob Marley

Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea! — Bob Marley

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation ... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa ... nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war! — Bob Marley

Overcome the devils with a thing called love. — Bob Marley

love the life you live.
live the life you love. — Bob Marley

We JAH people can make it work. — Bob Marley

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. — Bob Marley

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari. — Bob Marley

Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music — Bob Marley

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people — Bob Marley

Love hard when there is love to be had. — Bob Marley