Marley, Bob (Bob Marley)

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds.

-- Bob Marley

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. come on!

-- Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
-- Bob Marley

You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.
-- Bob Marley

When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace.
-- Bob Marley

When one door is closed don't you know another is open.
-- Bob Marley

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.
-- Bob Marley

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.
-- Bob Marley

They don't want to see us unite. All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting, they don't want to see us live together. All they want us to do is keep on killing one another.
-- Bob Marley

To make music is a life that I have to live.
-- Bob Marley

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned... WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari.
-- Bob Marley

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
-- Bob Marley

Some people got everything, some people got nothing, some people got ways and means, some people got no hope it seems... we're the survivors.
-- Bob Marley

Puss and dog, they get together, what's wrong with loving one another?
-- Bob Marley

Positive vibrations man. That's what makes it work. That's reggae music. You can't look away because it's real. You listen to what I sing because I mean what I sing, there's no secret, no big deal. Just honesty, that's all.
-- Bob Marley

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
-- Bob Marley

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.
-- Bob Marley

No man can lead man, we have to have unity.
-- Bob Marley

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-- Bob Marley

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
-- Bob Marley

Overcome the devils with a thing named love.
-- Bob Marley

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.
-- Bob Marley

Politics no interest me. Dem Devil business. Dem a play with people's minds. Never play with people's minds.
-- Bob Marley

Man is a universe within himself.
-- Bob Marley

Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool.
-- Bob Marley

Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side.
-- Bob Marley

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I would really like to see happen. I'd like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
-- Bob Marley

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.
-- Bob Marley

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 singularity 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.
-- Bob Marley

If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
-- Bob Marley

In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.
-- Bob Marley

It not we against the system, it the system against we.
-- Bob Marley

Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.
-- Bob Marley

I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead... but it's the same idea: justice.
-- Bob Marley

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.
-- Bob Marley

If I am guilty I will pay.
-- Bob Marley

If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down.
-- Bob Marley

I love the development of our music, that's what I really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried to develop, y'know? It grows. That's why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever.
-- Bob Marley

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.
-- Bob Marley

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
-- Bob Marley

I don't have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
-- Bob Marley

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!
-- Bob Marley

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
-- Bob Marley

Every man got a right to decide his own destiny.
-- Bob Marley

Every man think his burden is the heaviest, who feels it knows it, lord.
-- Bob Marley

A little wine sometimes. Spirits are bad, alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.
-- Bob Marley

All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
-- Bob Marley

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
-- Bob Marley

Money can't buy life.
-- Bob Marley