Reggae Music Quotes

• And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

  Merle Haggard

  Reggae, Latino

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I grew up with reggae music.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Reggae, Grew Up, Grew

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• Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Reggae, Music Is

  "Babylon calling". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Encouraging, Memorial Day, Freedom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

  Ziggy Marley

  Heart, Simple, People

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  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Song

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• None but ourselves can free our minds.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

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• One love, one heart, one destiny.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Anniversary, Heart

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• Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Religious, Positivity, Men

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• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Ambition, White

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• When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Character, Style

  "Q&A: Snoop Dogg and Diplo on Jamaican Inspiration, Bob Marley's Legacy". Interview with Jeff Rosenthal, www.rollingstone.com. July 31, 2012.

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• love the life you live. live the life you love.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Get Up, Stand Up" (song) (1973).

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• The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

  Bob Marley

  Taken, Wind, Forever

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• My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Stupid, Forever

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Music

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• One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Pain, Fighting, Forever

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• Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Dream, Future

  Song: Zimbabwe, Album: Survival, 1979

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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• In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

  Bob Marley

  Jamaica, Water, Rasta

  Song: Rate Race, Album: Rastaman Vibration

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• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

  Bob Marley

  Life, Music, Sadness

  Bob Marley (1998). “The Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)”, p.37, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Sad, Deep Thought

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