My songs is hard stuff which politicians don’t want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
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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I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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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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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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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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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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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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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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It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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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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.
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