Ziggy Marley Quotes & Sayings

Nobody owns me or my music. — Ziggy Marley

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love. — Ziggy Marley

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. — Ziggy Marley

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people. — Ziggy Marley

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today. — Ziggy Marley

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit. — Ziggy Marley

Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it. — Ziggy Marley

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it. — Ziggy Marley

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are. — Ziggy Marley

Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself. — Ziggy Marley

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living. — Ziggy Marley

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods. — Ziggy Marley

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s. — Ziggy Marley

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. — Ziggy Marley

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not. — Ziggy Marley

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way. — Ziggy Marley

The music I do is food ... that will be your dinner. — Ziggy Marley

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired. — Ziggy Marley

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. — Ziggy Marley

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really. — Ziggy Marley

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people. — Ziggy Marley

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything. — Ziggy Marley

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me. — Ziggy Marley

I like Flea, I like him as a musician. — Ziggy Marley

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression. — Ziggy Marley

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful. — Ziggy Marley

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody. — Ziggy Marley

I'm my own psychologist. — Ziggy Marley

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years. — Ziggy Marley

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it. — Ziggy Marley

I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on. — Ziggy Marley

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help. — Ziggy Marley

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers — Ziggy Marley

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. — Ziggy Marley

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind. — Ziggy Marley

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. — Ziggy Marley

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. — Ziggy Marley

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey. — Ziggy Marley

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music. — Ziggy Marley

I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it. — Ziggy Marley

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it. — Ziggy Marley

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource. — Ziggy Marley

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation. — Ziggy Marley

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise. — Ziggy Marley

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. — Ziggy Marley

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees. — Ziggy Marley

I'm into anything that really helps children. — Ziggy Marley

What inspires me is the universe. — Ziggy Marley

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. — Ziggy Marley

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father. — Ziggy Marley

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that. — Ziggy Marley

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. — Ziggy Marley

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done. — Ziggy Marley

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. — Ziggy Marley

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do. — Ziggy Marley

It was my dad's idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it's right, I use music in that light. — Ziggy Marley

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman. — Ziggy Marley

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected. — Ziggy Marley

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection. — Ziggy Marley

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful. — Ziggy Marley

To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing. — Ziggy Marley

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS. — Ziggy Marley

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God. — Ziggy Marley

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect. — Ziggy Marley

I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone. — Ziggy Marley

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities. — Ziggy Marley

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though. — Ziggy Marley

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience ... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night. — Ziggy Marley

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted. — Ziggy Marley

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live. — Ziggy Marley

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It's just a part of the cycle of our lives, we're born, we have eyes, we have music. — Ziggy Marley

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em. — Ziggy Marley

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. — Ziggy Marley

'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person. — Ziggy Marley

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working. — Ziggy Marley

The roots of my music start from the ghetto. — Ziggy Marley

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much. — Ziggy Marley

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. — Ziggy Marley

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas. — Ziggy Marley

Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion — Ziggy Marley

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab. — Ziggy Marley

I'm not Catholic, I'm not Orthodox and I wouldn't even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don't want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it's love. — Ziggy Marley

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive. — Ziggy Marley

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody. — Ziggy Marley

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package. — Ziggy Marley

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection. — Ziggy Marley

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people. — Ziggy Marley

It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress. — Ziggy Marley

People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully. — Ziggy Marley

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world. — Ziggy Marley

'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam. — Ziggy Marley

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up. — Ziggy Marley

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas. — Ziggy Marley

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again. — Ziggy Marley

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world. — Ziggy Marley

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years. — Ziggy Marley

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion — Ziggy Marley

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine. — Ziggy Marley

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow. — Ziggy Marley

Children are not a burden. — Ziggy Marley