Top 160 Ziggy Marley Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Love is more than one thing.”

— Ziggy Marley

52. “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

53. “People are loving me because they don’t even know me. “You’re Bob’s son. We love you.” So I think that’s a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I’m proud of that.”

— Ziggy Marley

54. “If there is no love in your heart – so sorry, Then there is no hope for you – true, true.”

— Ziggy Marley

55. “Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.”

— Ziggy Marley

56. “My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.”

— Ziggy Marley

57. “I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.”

— Ziggy Marley

58. “Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I’m proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.”

— Ziggy Marley

59. “The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.”

— Ziggy Marley

60. “The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There’s so much good things on Earth, still. We haven’t destroyed everything.”

— Ziggy Marley

61. “It’s hard to say a favorite song of my father’s. I listen to all his stuff – a lot of the old stuff before the ’70s.”

— Ziggy Marley

62. “People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I’m not paranoid or scared, I’m open. That’s how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.”

— Ziggy Marley

63. “I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.”

— Ziggy Marley

64. “I’ve tried body surfing. It’s nice.”

— Ziggy Marley

65. “I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.”

— Ziggy Marley

66. “Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution – revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.”

— Ziggy Marley

67. “I’m a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it’s important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you’re saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.”

— Ziggy Marley

68. “This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.”

— Ziggy Marley

69. “I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I’m just trying to be free with my expression.”

— Ziggy Marley

70. “My father’s songs don’t intimidate me; my father’s songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There’s no intimidation.”

— Ziggy Marley

71. “I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.”

— Ziggy Marley

72. “My father’s music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I’ve seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.”

— Ziggy Marley

73. “The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.”

— Ziggy Marley

74. “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

75. “As an artist, I feel that my father’s biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it’s not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.”

— Ziggy Marley

76. “I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It’s about feeding them something with meaning.”

— Ziggy Marley

77. “Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.”

— Ziggy Marley

78. “If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.”

— Ziggy Marley

79. “Children are the world’s future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.”

— Ziggy Marley

80. “I think if I’m serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what’s inside a human being.”

— Ziggy Marley

81. “I’ve been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It’s helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I’ve lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.”

— Ziggy Marley

82. “We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we’re inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.”

— Ziggy Marley

83. “I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.”

— Ziggy Marley

84. “Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren’t supposed to be done.”

— Ziggy Marley

85. “Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.”

— Ziggy Marley

86. “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

87. “I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.”

— Ziggy Marley

88. “Success to me does not mean money.”

— Ziggy Marley

89. “A record is a message, timeless.”

— Ziggy Marley

90. “Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it’s lacking substance, and it’s difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It’s not about the actual music because it’s about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.”

— Ziggy Marley

91. “I can feel my father’s spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.”

— Ziggy Marley

92. “The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.”

— Ziggy Marley

93. “My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I’m a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.”

— Ziggy Marley

94. “Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.”

— Ziggy Marley

95. “Music is a unifying force.”

— Ziggy Marley

96. “My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.”

— Ziggy Marley

97. “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

98. “Free spirits have to soar.” “True Religion.”

— Ziggy Marley

99. “The roots of my music start from the ghetto.”

— Ziggy Marley

100. “Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.”

— Ziggy Marley