Bob Marley Quotes

 Name: Bob Marley
 Birthday: February 6, 1945
 Genre:Reggae
 Occupations: Singer, Songwriter, Musician
 Years active: 1962–1981

“One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain”

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!”

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold…”

“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”

“In this bright future you can’t forget your past.”

“Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright”

“You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry”

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

“Just can’t live that negative way…make way for the positive day!”

“Don’t forget your history nor your destiny”

“If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say”

“Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can’t refuse it what to be got to be”

“When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can’t take the pace”

“People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.”

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

“Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift”

“Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.”

“When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”

“The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.”

“Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.”

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! “

“Man is a universe within himself.”

“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

“Tell the children the truth. “

“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. ”

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ”

“Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy”

“You smoke herb in Zimbabwe? Yeh, One night we go to a soldier place and a guerilla call out to me and give me a touch of something…and that was it. No wonder they won the war! Tell ya boy, dem mon smoke some good herb mon! De tell me they smoke that herb and feel brave. Them tell me it make them…invisible”

“We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we’re fussin’ n fighting like we ain’t supposed to be ”

“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold”

“The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead”

“The authorities tell you that you mustn’t smoke herb because it’s bad for you. Yet if they catch you at it they’ll carry you off to prison. I think it’s better to be smoking herb out here free than being in prison”

“Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard”

“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah’s gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth”

“I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car”

“I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I’m driving a BMW anymore. I couldn’t stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!”