Bob Marley and the Wailers
1976-05-01

Bob Marley Quotes

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

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Bob Marley

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley

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

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side.I stand for God's side.
Bob Marley

I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car.
Bob Marley

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

Just can't live that negative way... make way for the positive day!
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 sigularity 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

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 . Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

Man is a universe within himself.
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Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
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

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

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.
Bob Marley

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
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The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead.
Bob Marley

The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone.
Bob Marley