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My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

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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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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It don't last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.
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It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at mommy and daddy, running the show.
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It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
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Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
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I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
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The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
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Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.
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Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
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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.
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There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.
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I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
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The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
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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 and that stuff.
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