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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.

Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
Composer
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
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Kingston
Jamaica
David Nesta Marley
David Marley
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Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.
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I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. You're Bob's son. We love you. So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.
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I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
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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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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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I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.
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It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.
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A record is a message, timeless.
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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
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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 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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Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.
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I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.
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I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
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