Reggae Music Quotes

I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to.

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

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

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.

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.

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.

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

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

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

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

I grew up with reggae music.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

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.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing.

Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

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

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

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.

The really cool thing about reggae music is that I can get away with saying spiritual things as a reggae influenced artist that I couldn't get away with saying as a rock artist. Reggae has such spiritual roots and people almost expect to hear spiritual things.

I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.

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.

Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

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.

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

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

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

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

One love, one heart, one destiny.

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

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

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

For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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