Best Bob Marley Quotes & Sayings

When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it's true. It's like all art and creation: You're completely in the moment, and you just feel free. — Cory Monteith

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

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

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special — Bob Marley

And no matter what game they play
We got something they can never take away — Bob Marley

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

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy — 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

You can't run away from yourself — 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

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue. — Bob Marley

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. — Wyclef Jean

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

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

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

Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art. — Talib Kweli

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery — Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter ... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley

Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. — Bob Marley

Light up the darkness. — Bob Marley

Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms. — Bob Marley

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice. — Bob Marley

you are not perfect — Bob Marley

Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they just cannot touch us
Through the powers of the Most-High
We keep on surfacin'
Thru the powers of the Most-High
We keep on survivin'. — Bob Marley

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind. — Bob Marley

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion. — Bob Marley

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

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music. — Michael Franti

From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl,
My heart says follow through. — Bob Marley

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

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. — Bob Marley

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

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers ... make sure you hands are clean! — Bob Marley

When the cats away, the mice will play. — Bob Marley

Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong. — 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

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made. — Kamala Harris

There are no Jerry Garcias coming down the pike, anymore than there is a Jimi Hendrix or Bob Marley. They are all at the same level - the highest level that you strive to get to as a musician. Me and my friends - we'll all be long dead, people will still be trying to dig into what Jerry Garcia did. — Trey Anastasio

I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun. — Bob Marley

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

And the places she turns up in Jamaica are all the more curious. I remember being at sound-system dances and hearing everyone from Bob Marley Kenny Rogers (yes, Kenny Rogers) to Sade to Yellowman to Beenie Man being blasted at top volume while the crowd danced and drank up a storm. But once the selector (DJ in American parlance) began to play a Celine Dion song, the crowd went buck wild and some people started firing shots in the air.... I also remember always hearing Celine Dion blasting at high volume whenever I passed through volatile and dangerous neighborhoods, so much that it became a cue to me to walk, run or drive faster if I was ever in a neighborhood I didn't know and heard Celine Dion mawking over the airwaves. — Carl Wilson