Bob Marley Quotes on Life

Bob Marley was a famous Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for bringing reggae music to the world with his charismatic performances and spiritual songwriting. He became a popular culture icon and is still just as famous today (among white and black people). Popular Bob Marley albums include “The Wailing Wailers”, “The Best of the Wailers”, “Catch a Fire”, “Natty Dread”, “Rastaman Vibration”, “Babylon by Bus”, “Survival”, “Uprising”, and “Confrontation”.

Mini biography: Born Robert Nesta Marley on the 6th of February, 1945 in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. His mother was Cedella Malcolm and his father Norval Sinclair Marley was a plantation overseer. Marley married Alpharita Constantia Anderson (Rita Marley) in 1966 and they had four children (including two from Rita’s previous relationship): Sharon, Cedella, David (Ziggy), and Stephen. He also had multiple children with other women with a total of eleven. Children from other relationships include: Robert, Rohan, Karen, Stephanie, Julian, Ky-Mani, and Damian. The musician died from a skin cancer on the 11th of May, 1981 in Miami, Florida, United States at the age of 36.

List of Famous Bob Marley Music Quotes

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

Man can’t do without God. Just like you’re thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can’t go without God. Bob Marley

No man can lead man, we have to have unity. Bob Marley

Me only have one ambition, you 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

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. Bob Marley

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we’ll never be blue. 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

Sometimes you have to fight with music. Bob Marley

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man. Bob Marley

I don’t have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white. Bob Marley

Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine. Bob Marley

Every man got a right to decide his own destiny. 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. Bob Marley

Don’t forget your history nor your destiny. 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

To make music is a life that I have to live. Bob Marley

Music Quotes About Bob Marley

Looking at him, you could tell he had some kind of aura. He wasn’t always on the Earth plane. Jimmy Cliff Quotes

Bob Marley Album Cover (Kaya 1978)

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