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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.

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
Born
Helped
Else
Somewhere
Around
Lived
America
Grow
Mind
Needed
Life
Open
Grows
Jamaica
Moving
Africa

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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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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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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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Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
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Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.
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My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
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I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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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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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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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Jamaica has problems America has problems everywhere has problems.
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Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
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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 try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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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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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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In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
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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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