Music Quotes

Long time you fight revolution, and when you fight revolution, you use guns. You don't really want talk about revolution until you have guns, right? So me don't want ever to talk 'bout revolution because me no never get gun. Me make music. Music is the biggest gun.'

Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya.

Musicians must be spokespeople for the oppressed masses.

That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, Dis a war.

How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss?

They say love is a stream that will find its course.

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.

It take a joyful sound to make a world go round.

I'm gonna be your friend in high tide or in low tide.

It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.

Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

Well, what we know Is not what they tell us. We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'.

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard.

The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

I wish we were all hippies and did yoga, lived in cottages, smoked weed, accepted everyone for who they are, and listened to wonderful music. I wish money didn't make us who we are. I just wish we could redo society.

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.