"I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture."
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Ziggy Marley quotes (page 4 of 10)
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"Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people."
"I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am."
"Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect."
""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."
"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."
"Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant and it is very useful."
"The roots of my music start from the ghetto."
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it."
"My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there."
"A record is a message, timeless."
"What inspires me is the universe."
"It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress."
"The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit."
"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."
"Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love."
"I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel."
"Success to me does not mean money."
"So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of."
"I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children."