Bob Marley

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

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

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

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

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Tell the children the truth.

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.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

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 future is righteousness.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.