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I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
Composer
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Voice Actor
Kingston
Jamaica
David Nesta Marley
David Marley
Tree
Alive
Living
Thought
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Yard
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Yards
Believe
Trees
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
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The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.
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Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
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Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.
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I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
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As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.
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