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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 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

Bloom Born Flower Music Tree
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

Aware Diagnose Divine Parents Potential Quality Teaching
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

Father Guitar Instrument Mother Play
Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
PETER TOSH

Advertisement Legal
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

Corruption News Television Watch
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

Church Teaching Try
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?
PETER TOSH

Creation Divine Fade Flesh Spirit
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

Man Regret Understand
I am good. I live good. I think good. I don’t have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
PETER TOSH

Feeling Goodness Live Positive Thinking
I don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
PETER TOSH

Obligation Owe
Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
PETER TOSH

Barrier Drive Equality Oppression Rule Words
I man don’t come red, I come Black
PETER TOSH

Black Man Red
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don’t want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
PETER TOSH

Ignorance People Politics Radio Song Station Want
It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
PETER TOSH

Freedom Inspirational Live Man Truth
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
PETER TOSH

Beats Music Play
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake.
PETER TOSH

Beats Dance Earth Earthquake
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
PETER TOSH

Death Guilt Possession Truth
I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH

Consequence Politics Suffering
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

Children Song Writing
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
PETER TOSH

Garden Music Travel
When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
PETER TOSH

Adjustment Imagination Myself Planet
Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
PETER TOSH

Flow Forget Fountain Music
What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
PETER TOSH

Represent
I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.
PETER TOSH

Believe Church Parents Time
Music is in me.
PETER TOSH

Music
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

God Lord People Sick Teaching
My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.
PETER TOSH

Black Black Lives Matter Construction People World

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