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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.

Ziggy Marley

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Ziggy Marley
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 17
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David Nesta Marley
David Marley
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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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Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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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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My father's songs don't intimidate me my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
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Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
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We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
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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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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.
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The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.
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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.
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