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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.

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
Without
Became
Even
Grew
Trying
Within
Kind
Though
Like
Father
Music
Wanted
Everything

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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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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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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.
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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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Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
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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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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.
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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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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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Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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Nobody owns me or my music.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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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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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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In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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