I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don’t believe they are as much alive as we are. – Ziggy Marley
I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right. – Ziggy Marley
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. – Ziggy Marley
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. – Ziggy Marley
Children are the world’s future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource. – Ziggy Marley
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone. – Ziggy Marley
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. – Ziggy Marley
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. – Ziggy Marley
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. – Ziggy Marley
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They’re like you and me. – Ziggy Marley
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time ‘cuz sometimes it’s just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. – Ziggy Marley
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don’t have with anybody else, but that’s not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. – Ziggy Marley
The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It’s the ability to love each other. That’s the only solution I see. – Ziggy Marley
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. – Ziggy Marley
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it. – Ziggy Marley
The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab. – Ziggy Marley
I’ve opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. – Ziggy Marley
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right. – Ziggy Marley
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. – Ziggy Marley
The people don’t run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help. – Ziggy Marley
