Bob Marley Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Bob Marley Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.— Bob Marley

I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.— Amanda Donohoe

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.— Bob Marley

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.— Bob Marley

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest.— Stephen Marley

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.— Bob Marley

My life anuh fi me alone ... My life a fi people ... Fi help plenty people ... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it— Bob Marley

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.— Bob Marley

I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just looked in the mirror and saw that I had drawn a nice mural on my back. It looks kind of like a map of Wyoming, with all the rivers and mountain ranges, or maybe a portrait of Bob Marley. Yes. Tablature— Jade Puget

They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.— Bob Marley

No man can lead mean, we have to have unity.— Bob Marley

I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers ... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.— Diplo

Whose the cap fit, let them where it.— Bob Marley

Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.— Bob Marley

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time— Bob Marley

My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.— Bob Marley

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.— W. Kamau Bell

Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You— Bob Marley

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.— Bob Marley

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.— Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.— Bob Marley

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.— Bob Marley

The beauty of love.— Bob Marley
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.— Bob Marley

The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?— Bob Marley

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.— Bob Marley

Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh! Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!" "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry! Cause every little thing gonna be all right.— Bob Marley

You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake.— Miley Cyrus

Because I'm pretty sure we conceived this child the night I ate that pot cookie. I'm eighty-four percent positive our child is going to be born a pot head. It's going to come out with dreadlocks and wearing a Bob Marley onesie. Its first word will probably be 'Whaaaaaazzzzzzzuuuuuup'. It's never, ever going to sleep through the night because it's always going to have the munchies.— Tara Sivec

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.— Wyclef Jean

I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness,— Bob Marley
everyone doin' and they're doing their best!

You can't run away from yourself— Bob Marley

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.— Bob Marley

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively— Bob Marley

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.— Bob Marley

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.— Bob Marley

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.— Bob Marley

We JAH people can make it work.— Bob Marley

When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.— Bob Marley

Look like barbie, Smoke like marley.— Bob Marley

Well, what we know— Bob Marley
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they just cannot touch us
Through the powers of the Most-High
We keep on surfacin'
Thru the powers of the Most-High
We keep on survivin'.

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.— Bob Marley

It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.— Bob Marley

The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.— Bob Marley

One lifetime is not enough to live— Bob Marley

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold.— Bob Marley

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.— Matthew Morrison

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.— Bob Marley

Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again— Bob Marley

Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff— Bob Marley

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war— Bob Marley

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.— Ice Cube

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— Jimmy Buffett

Most people think great god will come from the skies, 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

The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.— Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter ... Some of the best things in life really are free.— Bob Marley

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.— Bob Marley

Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite ... if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.— Bob Marley

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.— Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.— Bob Marley
Bob Marley (March 1981)

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.— Bob Marley

We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!— Bob Marley

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.— Bob Marley

Dry your tears, have no fears.— Bob Marley

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.— Jon Fishman

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections— Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.— Bob Marley

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.— Bob Marley

Rise and take your stance once again— Bob Marley

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.— Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.— Bob Marley

Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.— Bob Marley

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty— Bob Marley

She moved in for a better look.It was a portrait of Bob Marley,a pretty good one,actually.No Woman, No Cry ... that's right.No teenage girls either.All right,ten points if you'Re a poet,minus twenty-five if you're in a band and minus fifty if you're into the ganja.— Sheri Meshal

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright— Bob Marley

Life, it's life we deal with ... He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.— Bob Marley

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

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.— Bob Marley

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.— Bob Marley

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink— Bob Marley

You have to be someone.— Bob Marley

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.— Bob Marley

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? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.— Bob Marley

I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals,— Bob Marley

In high tide or in low tide,— Bob Marley
I'll be by your side

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.— Bob Marley

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.— Bob Marley

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.— Bob Marley

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.— Bob Marley

The soft wool blend of his sweater felt itchy compared to his skin.— Ophelia London
Even though we'd been together all night, I couldn't get over the
feel of him, his taste, that potent, delicious smell of his neck. I was
higher than a fan at a Bob Marley concert.

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.— Bob Marley
