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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
Composer
Musician
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Kingston
Jamaica
David Nesta Marley
David Marley
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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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So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
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Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
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If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
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I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.
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My father's songs don't intimidate me my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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