I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
PETER TOSHThere are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality
More Peter Tosh Quotes
-
-
My philosophy is: if you don’t bear a cross, you can’t wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
PETER TOSH -
I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it’s so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
PETER TOSH -
Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
PETER TOSH -
Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren’t teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.
PETER TOSH -
It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
PETER TOSH -
I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?
PETER TOSH -
My mother and father didn’t know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, ‘My, the man play that guitar nice.’
PETER TOSH -
Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That’s why me go write a song called ‘Illegitimate Children.’ It took me years to find out I was one.
PETER TOSH -
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, ‘Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,’ made me sick.
PETER TOSH -
When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
PETER TOSH -
It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
PETER TOSH -
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
PETER TOSH -
Music is a science, it heals depression.
PETER TOSH -
Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
PETER TOSH -
My earthly parents don’t know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren’t taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
PETER TOSH -
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.
PETER TOSH -
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
PETER TOSH -
If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
PETER TOSH -
I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?
PETER TOSH -
If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.
PETER TOSH -
To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
PETER TOSH -
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
PETER TOSH -
I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
PETER TOSH -
I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
PETER TOSH -
What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
PETER TOSH -
It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
PETER TOSH