110+ Ziggy Marley Quotes On Reggae, Inspiring And Joyful

Ziggy Marley is a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter, and producer. He is the son of reggae legend Bob Marley, and the leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He has released thirteen solo and group albums, and won eight Grammy Awards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ziggy Marley on love, reggae, inspiring.

Top 10 Ziggy Marley Quotes

1. There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
2. When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
3. My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
4. I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
5. Love is cheering and sharing and compassion, and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy, or relief to anyone or anything.
6. The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
7. The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
8. The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
9. URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
10. God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

Ziggy Marley Short Quotes

• In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
• Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
• I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
• A record is a message, timeless.
• I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
• I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
• How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
• There's more to life than physical and material.
• Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Love

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion — Ziggy Marley

If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true — Ziggy Marley

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message. — Ziggy Marley

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

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect. — Ziggy Marley

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love. — Ziggy Marley

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection. — Ziggy Marley

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice. — Ziggy Marley

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist. — Ziggy Marley

"I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Reggae

Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people. — Ziggy Marley

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

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. — Ziggy Marley

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted. — Ziggy Marley

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. — Ziggy Marley

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Inspiring

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired. — Ziggy Marley

Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it. — Ziggy Marley

'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. — Ziggy Marley

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. — Ziggy Marley

What inspires me is the universe. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Jamaica

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. — Ziggy Marley

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. — Ziggy Marley

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. — Ziggy Marley

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems. — Ziggy Marley

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. — Ziggy Marley

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still. — Ziggy Marley

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big. — Ziggy Marley

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture. — Ziggy Marley

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. — Ziggy Marley

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Quotes About People

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people. — Ziggy Marley

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community. — Ziggy Marley

I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations. — Ziggy Marley

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers — Ziggy Marley

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years. — Ziggy Marley

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people. — Ziggy Marley

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

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. — Ziggy Marley

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good. — Ziggy Marley

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Music

It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light. — Ziggy Marley

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music. — Ziggy Marley

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today. — Ziggy Marley

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it. — Ziggy Marley

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. — Ziggy Marley

The roots of my music start from the ghetto. — Ziggy Marley

Music is a unifying force. — Ziggy Marley

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

I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being. — Ziggy Marley

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Live

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there. — Ziggy Marley

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. — Ziggy Marley

People have to know there is more to living than physical things. — Ziggy Marley

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live. — Ziggy Marley

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living. — Ziggy Marley

I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music. — Ziggy Marley

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. — Ziggy Marley

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

Ziggy Marley Quotes About Artist

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

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end. — Ziggy Marley

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was. — Ziggy Marley

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities. — Ziggy Marley

As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing. — Ziggy Marley

Ziggy Marley Famous Quotes And Sayings

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual. — Ziggy Marley

The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously. — Ziggy Marley

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. — Ziggy Marley

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind. — Ziggy Marley

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. — Ziggy Marley

Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love. — Ziggy Marley

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. — Ziggy Marley

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff. — Ziggy Marley

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge. — Ziggy Marley

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up. — Ziggy Marley

Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact. — Ziggy Marley

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s. — Ziggy Marley

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. — Ziggy Marley

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days. — Ziggy Marley

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future. — Ziggy Marley

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody. — Ziggy Marley

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament. — Ziggy Marley

Success to me does not mean money. — Ziggy Marley

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel. — Ziggy Marley

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. — Ziggy Marley

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice. — Ziggy Marley

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life. — Ziggy Marley

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit. — Ziggy Marley

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

Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. — Ziggy Marley

I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much. — Ziggy Marley

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected. — Ziggy Marley

We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously. — Ziggy Marley

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet. — Ziggy Marley

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot. — Ziggy Marley

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it. — Ziggy Marley

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children. — Ziggy Marley

I'm my own psychologist. — Ziggy Marley

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show. — Ziggy Marley

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection. — Ziggy Marley

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more. — Ziggy Marley

there's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind — Ziggy Marley

People love me everywhere I go. — Ziggy Marley

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner. — Ziggy Marley

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation. — Ziggy Marley

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing. — Ziggy Marley

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

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really. — Ziggy Marley

Children are not a burden. — Ziggy Marley

Life Lessons by Ziggy Marley

1. Ziggy Marley's music is a reminder to stay true to yourself and your beliefs, no matter what obstacles you face.
2. He encourages us to stay connected to our roots, and to use music as a way to bring people together.
3. His work also shows us the power of positivity and optimism, and how it can help us to stay strong and keep going even when times are tough.