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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

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
Rights
Father
Important
Thing
Every
Men
Taught
Stand

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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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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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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 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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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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Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.
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I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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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. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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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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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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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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Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.
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I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
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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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We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.
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The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
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