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Bob Marley
36 quotes
“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bob Marley interview on Marijuana" (1979) from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite
“All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
“Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob
“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trenchtown Rock (single, 1970)
“Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin (1973)
“Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Burnin (1973), cowritten with
“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin (1973)
“If you are the big tree We are the small axe Sharpened to cut you down Ready to cut you down”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Small Axe, from the album Burnin (1973)
“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
“Never make a politician grant you a favour They will always want to control you forever.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Revolution, from the album Natty Dread (1974)
“If you get down and you quarrel everyday You're saying prayers to the devils, I say.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)
“Truth is the light So you never give up the fight.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
“When the rain falls, it won't fall on one man's housetop.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: So Much Things to Say, from the album Exodus (1977)
“Your life is worth much more than gold.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
“Don't worry about a thing, 'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)
“One love, one heart, Let's get together and feel alright.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)
“Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff) Good God I gotta' take a lift (lift) From reality I just can't drift (drift) That's why I am staying with this riff (riff) Take it easy, easy skanking Got to take it easy, easy skanking.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube
“They say the sun shines for all But in some people world it never shine at all.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crisis, from the album Kaya (1978)
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)
“Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wake Up and Live!” on Survival (1979)
“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When one door is closed, many more is open.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
“Won't you help to sing, These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever had, Redemption songs.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We JAH people can make it work.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't gain the world and lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source