Ziggy Marley

Musician

Ziggy Marley is a Jamaican musician and activist known for his reggae music that promotes love, freedom, and social justice, following in the footsteps of his father, Bob Marley.

Born
October 17, 1968
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Rank
#626

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. That would be the revelation of love. If you have a question of whether this is love, think about the effect."

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"I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it."

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"If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"It's natural that anyone is compared to their father."

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"My father speaks for himself, through his music."

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"'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."

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

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