I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSHMy 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.’
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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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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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 was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
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If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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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 go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.
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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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