Top 160 Ziggy Marley Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that’s genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.”

— Ziggy Marley

102. “I don’t chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.”

— Ziggy Marley

103. “I have a satellite radio show called ‘The Legends of Reggae.’ It’s a cool way to branch out and do other things. I’m paying respect to the legends of reggae.”

— Ziggy Marley

104. “Society and the system and politicians don’t want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show ’em.”

— Ziggy Marley

105. “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

106. “Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.”

— Ziggy Marley

107. “I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.”

— Ziggy Marley

108. “My father speaks for himself, through his music.”

— Ziggy Marley

109. “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

110. “I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.”

— Ziggy Marley

111. “I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.”

— Ziggy Marley

112. “The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It’s about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.”

— Ziggy Marley

113. “Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.”

— Ziggy Marley

114. “Everything I’ve taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can’t say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.”

— Ziggy Marley

115. “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

116. “I don’t think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.”

— Ziggy Marley

117. “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

118. “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

119. “I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.”

— Ziggy Marley

120. “My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.”

— Ziggy Marley

121. “I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn’t have a father during my teenage years.”

— Ziggy Marley

122. “I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.”

— Ziggy Marley

123. “It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.”

— Ziggy Marley

124. “The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.”

— Ziggy Marley

125. “I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.”

— Ziggy Marley

126. “I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.”

— Ziggy Marley

127. “My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn’t have, because I was right in the end.”

— Ziggy Marley

128. “The truth – you’ve got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.”

— Ziggy Marley

129. “Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.”

— Ziggy Marley

130. “It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.”

— Ziggy Marley

131. “It’s that kind of in-born music thing – I could pick up the guitar and play something. It’s not something I consciously do.”

— Ziggy Marley

132. “Some of my songs I don’t do on tour because they don’t work well live.”

— Ziggy Marley

133. “I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.”

— Ziggy Marley

134. “I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.”

— Ziggy Marley

135. “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

136. “I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.”

— Ziggy Marley

137. “My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they’re all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.”

— Ziggy Marley

138. “Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.”

— Ziggy Marley

139. “The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.”

— Ziggy Marley

140. “I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It’s part of our culture.”

— Ziggy Marley

141. “It’s natural that anyone is compared to their father.”

— Ziggy Marley

142. “Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.”

— Ziggy Marley

143. “My father and I had a really good relationship. We’re cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.”

— Ziggy Marley

144. “I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.”

— Ziggy Marley

145. “I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.”

— Ziggy Marley

146. “I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.”

— Ziggy Marley

147. “We still have to evolve, that’s how we’re created, we’re created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.”

— Ziggy Marley

148. “In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.”

— Ziggy Marley

149. “I’m into anything that really helps children.”

— Ziggy Marley

150. “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