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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.

Jimmy Cliff

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Jimmy Cliff
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 30
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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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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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Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.
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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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I think we all have a role to play in life.
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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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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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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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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 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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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 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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Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.
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