Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
PETER TOSHI 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?
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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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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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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Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
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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 was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
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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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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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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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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Music is in me.
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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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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.
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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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I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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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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I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
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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.
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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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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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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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