Bob Marley Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By 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
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
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. — 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
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
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
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
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
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear. — 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