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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

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
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Social
Political
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Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant and it is very useful.
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Success to me does not mean money.
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I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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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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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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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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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.
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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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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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In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
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