Marley Quotes

"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Hispanic is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. Number two, Latin people are very passionate, and the music that we love is definitely Afro-rooted -- whether it`s Bob Marley or Afro-Cuban -- because it deals with rhythms." (quoted in response to the use of the term "Latin Explosion" in TV Guide, 19-25 February 2000 issue, Vol. 48, No. 8, 40-42.)

I`ll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn`t black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

(Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on the international map. They are linked by point of origin -- after all, hip-hop formed when Kool Herc fled Jamaica`s mid-Seventies political unrest and headed for the Bronx -- and in terms of their impact.) I love hip-hop music, ... It`s rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class -- they both come from the bottom of society.

(By entering the family business of music he followed many of his siblings including elder brothers Stephen, Ziggy, Julian and Ky-Mani and sisters Sharon and Cedella. They frequently perform together and in 1992, Ziggy and Stephen formed Ghetto Youths International. So close are the Marley siblings that some joke it is rare to find them on their own.) That`s how we perform. There`s no other way, ... my unit, it`s M-Unit. We don`t do anything alone. It`s always a family effort.

That`s the best way to feed the human mind. That`s how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

There`s not a hip-hop artist that didn`t snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It`s totally impossible.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They`re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you`re doing something right.