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 TOSHBecause 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.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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There 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
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Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
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I man don’t come red, I come Black
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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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It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
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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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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.
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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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.
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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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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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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?
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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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