Marley Quotes
I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
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.
I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)
When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning
You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake. You know you smoke way too much f--king weed!
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.
I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
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
When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.
I can stay on my boat for a few weeks if I have a guitar and a girl and a Bob Marley CD. After that, I've got to move around.
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
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.
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
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.
I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.
In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side...I'll be by your side.
You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.
Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion