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If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.
Jimmy Cliff
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Jimmy Cliff
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 30
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Saint James
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It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. (Harder They Come) I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.
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I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.
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I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.
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My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
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I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
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Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
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I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
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I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
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I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.
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Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.
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It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, My feet back onto the ground.
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I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is
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I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.
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Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.
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Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.
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I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
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We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.
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I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.
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In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
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And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
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