Jimmy Cliff Quotes about Music

Jimmy Cliff is a famous Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his popular upbeat reggae music and his role in the seventies film The Harder They Come. Popular Jimmy Cliff albums include “Hard Road to Travel”, “The Harder They Come”, “Follow My Mind”, “The Power and the Glory”, “Give the People What They Want”, “We All Are One: The Best of Jimmy Cliff”, “Higher & Higher”, and “Refugees”.

Mini biography: Born James Chambers on the 30th of July, 1944 in St. James, Jamaica. Cliff is married and has two children: daughter Lilty and son Aken Cliff.

List of Famous Jimmy Cliff Music Quotes

I found that I made enemies for no reason, just by being successful. That was a very strange thing to me. And also, if I wanted my privacy, it wasn’t that easy to come by. So yeah, it had its ups and downs. Jimmy Cliff

It is a pure music. It was born of the poorer class of people. It is the soul of Jamaican music. It came from the need for recognition, identity and respect (reggae music). Jimmy Cliff

I’ve always been a forward-looking person, but I’ve learned it more over the years. I have learned to live in the present, and the present is called the present because it is a gift. And I’m here now. Jimmy Cliff

In England we had to fight to get any kind of recognition. Jamaica is a country of 90% African descendants, so I didn’t find it as hard getting recognition, identity, respect there. Jimmy Cliff

I have a better knowledge of what we call death. It’s just a transition to the other side of existence. The physical body is not the end. The body is still there but moves to a higher plane. It stays circling around out there in this atmosphere. It depends how you live your life. Jimmy Cliff

I am someone who is full of energy. On stage, and it comes across on record, so the quality of my voice has maintained. I always knew I had a good voice, I never want to lose that, I guess somewhere I made a conscious effort to maintain my voice. Jimmy Cliff

I could have gone either way — I could have gone like Ivan, in the movie, or gone the way I have now. I had to be optimistic to survive. Or you sink like a stone. So, I put it down to that, I just have to stay optimistic. Jimmy Cliff

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

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