Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do. "

Related Quotes:

" I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired. "

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

" I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas. "

" I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line. "

" I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae. "

" 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. "

" The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon. "

" 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. "

" In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual. "

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

" God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People have to know there is more to living than physical things. "

" I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey. "

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

" 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. "

" There's more to life than physical and material. "

" Love is more than one thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened. "

" Nobody owns me or my music. "

" Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people. "