Bob Marley

Musician, Singer-Songwriter

Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer-songwriter known for popularizing reggae music and his powerful messages of love, freedom, and social justice.

Born
February 6, 1945
Died
May 11, 1981
Quotes
293
Rank
#32

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"Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live."

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

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"Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean."

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"Could you be loved and be loved?"

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"Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art."

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"Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot."

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"It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail."

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"Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread."

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"We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!"

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"I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life."

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"One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim."

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"The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right."

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"The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom."

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"I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises. 'Cos I'n'I no expect to be justified by the laws of men - by the laws of men. Oh, true they have found me guilty, But through - through Jah proved my innocency."

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"Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day."

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"So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down."

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"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'."

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"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."

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"My feet is my only carriage."

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