Ziggy Quotes & Sayings

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

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me. — 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

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

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time. — 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

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. — 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

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

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

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

A long term relationship is priceless! Divorce isn't. This book should help you get it right the first time. Since it just came out however, it will help you get it right the next time also. — Susan Ziggy

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

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind — 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

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 like it when you ask me to come!" he called after me. "I can't wait to come tonight, Ziggy! Should I come around eight? Or do you want me to come around ten? Maybe I'll come both times? — Christina Lauren

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. — Ziggy Marley

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character. — David Bowie

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice. — Ziggy Marley

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live. — Ziggy Marley

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show. — Ziggy Marley

My father speaks for himself, through his music. — Ziggy Marley

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true — Ziggy Marley

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more. — Ziggy Marley

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

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work. — Ziggy Marley

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with. — David Bowie

I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it. — David Bowie

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

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be. — 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

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people. — Ziggy Marley

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good. — Ziggy Marley

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being. — Ziggy Marley

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems. — 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

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual. — Ziggy Marley

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people. — Ziggy Marley

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

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

I'm always in love. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly. — David Bowie

I've never read one book about my father. — 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

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

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament. — 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

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that's the direction I am in now which I call spiritual. — Ziggy Marley

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. — Ziggy Marley

Children are not a burden. — Ziggy Marley

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life. — 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

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us. — Ziggy Marley

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message. — Ziggy Marley

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

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. — Ziggy Marley

Older Fags and Younger Fags, Like Legally Young. Daddies. Zeus and Ganymede.
Ganymede was a child, Ziggy schooled her.
Yeah, You Were There, Michelle retorted, On Mount Olympus. You Were Working the Door. You Carded Ganymede. — Michelle Tea

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

Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said. "Early or late, — Brandon Mull

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us. — Ziggy Marley

I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album. — Elton John

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing. — Ziggy Marley

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

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger ... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy. — Ziggy Marley

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy. — 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

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone. — Ziggy Marley

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

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

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff. — Ziggy Marley

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist. — 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

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

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still. — Ziggy Marley

I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play. — Ziggy Marley

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. — Ziggy Marley

We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will. — Mike Milbury

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

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music. — Ziggy Marley

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah! — David Bowie

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

People love me everywhere I go. — Ziggy Marley

Those who accuse these women of fraud in their image craft seem not to have heard of David Bowie's successful alter ego Ziggy Stardust or even Bob Dylan, the folksy creation of a genius named Robert Allen Zimmerman. There is a tradition of male artists taking on personae that are understood to be part of their art. It is as though there is so much genius within them that it must be split between these mortal men and the characters they create. Women who venture to do the same are ridiculed as fakers and try-hards. — Alana Massey

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it. — Ziggy Marley

I run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel. — Ziggy Marley

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice. — Ziggy Marley

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything. — Ziggy Marley

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. — David Bowie

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me ... I don't fight the universe. — Ziggy Marley

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love. — Ziggy Marley