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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.

Jimmy Cliff

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Jimmy Cliff
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: July 30
Actor
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Saint James
Jamaica
James Chambers
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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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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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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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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 think we all have a role to play in life.
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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.
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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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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've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.
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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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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 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'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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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 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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Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.
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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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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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