Marley Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

  Matisyahu

  Song, Thinking, Bob

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• Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

  Matisyahu

  Artist, Style, Bob

  "Matisyahu talks about his new religious outlook and appearance". Interview with Daniel Hoffman, www.jta.org. March 13, 2013.

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• I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

  Spike Lee

  College, White, Giving

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• Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.

  John Grogan

  Police, Sound, Answers

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• 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.

  Ziggy Marley

  Mean, Artist, Leader

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Mar 01, 2012

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• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Jobs, Leader

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• That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

  Wyclef Jean

  Mind, Singing, Hook

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• Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

  Wyclef Jean

  Love, Peace, Bob

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

  Mos Def

  Reflection, Jamaica, Two

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• In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

  Bruno Mars

  Band, Hawaii, Bob

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• I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

  Bruno Mars

  Beautiful, Song, Hawaii

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• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Mean, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.1

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• Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?” I whispered. “What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.” He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went. Marley,” I said. “You are a great dog.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Pain, Believe

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• I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspirational, Dance, Rap

  "Francesca Annis: 'Remember, I didn't choose to be an actress'". Interview with Hermione Eyre, www.independent.co.uk. December 15, 2002.

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• Marley was dead: to begin with.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Powerful, People

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interiew with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Israel, People, Skins

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

  Jimmy Buffett

  Beach, Practice, Tape

  Song: Fruitcakes

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• A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

  Wyclef Jean

  Half, Bob, Reggae

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• I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Thinking, Views, Suffering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Powerful, People

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

  Usain Bolt

  Song, Race, Guy

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

  Ice Cube

  Mean, Bob

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

  John Grogan

  Children, Teenager, Book

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