I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
PETER TOSHI’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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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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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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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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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 don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
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Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
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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 am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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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Music is a science, it heals depression.
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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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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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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 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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