Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
PETER TOSHPeople go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means. ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
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People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means. ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
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Music is in me.
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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
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Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake.
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I don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
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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.
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I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
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It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
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My songs is hard stuff which politicians don’t want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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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.
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I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
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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!
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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.
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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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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.’
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If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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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?
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It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
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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.
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