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My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
Composer
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Kingston
Jamaica
David Nesta Marley
David Marley
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My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
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Nobody owns me or my music.
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My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.
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To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.
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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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I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
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I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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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 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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