Top 30 Jimmy Cliff Quotes (2024 Update)

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It’s the sweeter the victory.”

1. “Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It’s the sweeter the victory.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I think we all have a role to play in life.”

2. “I think we all have a role to play in life.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I’d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.”

3. “I’d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone’s life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.”

4. “Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone’s life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you’re dead you can’t. But I’d rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.”

5. “And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you’re dead you can’t. But I’d rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I’ve got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it’s a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can’t turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind’s made up, I’ll never stop, my faith will see me through.”

6. “I’ve got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it’s a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can’t turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind’s made up, I’ll never stop, my faith will see me through.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them.”

7. “Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “Beyond everything else, that’s one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.”

8. “Beyond everything else, that’s one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I love to create and that’s what gives my soul the satisfaction.”

9. “I love to create and that’s what gives my soul the satisfaction.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it’s like that to me.”

10. “I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it’s like that to me.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “It’s important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I’m from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don’t live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I’m seeing the same things that I lived. That’s one of the things I mean when I say, “My feet back onto the ground.””

11. “It’s important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I’m from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don’t live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I’m seeing the same things that I lived. That’s one of the things I mean when I say, “My feet back onto the ground.””

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I don’t know where life will lead me, but I know where I’ve been. I can’t say what life will show me, but I know what I’ve seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.”

12. “I don’t know where life will lead me, but I know where I’ve been. I can’t say what life will show me, but I know what I’ve seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.”

13. “Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.”

14. “In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.”

15. “My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “My role is the shepherd’s role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.”

16. “My role is the shepherd’s role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.”

17. “I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is.”

18. “I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “The love is the part of us that can never go. It’s the essence that was always there, so that can never go.”

19. “The love is the part of us that can never go. It’s the essence that was always there, so that can never go.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there’s no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!”

20. “I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there’s no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that’s my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.”

21. “I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that’s my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.”

22. “We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I don’t think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I’m one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.”

23. “I don’t think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I’m one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I’m an artist. And I’m happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.”

24. “I’m an artist. And I’m happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I was a songwriter and I’ve written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.”

25. “I was a songwriter and I’ve written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, ‘OK, I’ve done it all,’ but for me, it was a new beginning.”

26. “People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, ‘OK, I’ve done it all,’ but for me, it was a new beginning.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I’ve done a lot of things to become what I’ve become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.”

27. “I’ve done a lot of things to become what I’ve become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better.”

28. “I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.”

29. “I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I’m not done at all.”

30. “I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I’m not done at all.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “If you go out to Hollywood you’ll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.”

31. “If you go out to Hollywood you’ll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.”

— Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quote: “Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that’s what I’ll be doing on my next album.”

32. “Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that’s what I’ll be doing on my next album.”

— Jimmy Cliff

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