Ten Bob Marley Quotes

1. We Africans will fight. We find it necessary. And we know we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil. (From the song War)

2. Rasta no abide amputation. I don’t allow a man to be dismantled.

3. Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

4. 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.

5. Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

6. 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.

7. My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like… like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and breed her. He’s a English guy… I t’ink. Cos me see him one time yunno. My mother? My Mother African.

8. I love the development of our music, that’s what I really dig about the whole thing. How we’ve tried to develop, y’know? It grows. That’s why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever.

9. 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.

10. The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.