Jimmy Cliff Quotes - Page 2

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• I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Attention, World, Outlook

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Believe, Artist, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

  Jimmy Cliff

  Ghetto, Want, Diplomacy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Shepherds, Roles, Flocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, World, Singers

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• The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Love Is, Essence

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and it came from the ancient Egyptians.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Culture, Ancient, Rebirth

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Dark, Energy, Looks

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Overcoming, Disease, Able

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• My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Fire, Earth, Sacred

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, Done, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Years, Law, Two

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I live between Jamaica and Paris.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Jamaica, Paris

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Missing, Connections, Vulnerable

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Pain, Swimming

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• I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Able, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, Writing, Jamaica

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Echoes, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Smell, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Artist, Helping, Jamaican Music

  Source: www.gq.com

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