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?
PETER TOSHIt is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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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 am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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 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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I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
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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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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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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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I man don’t come red, I come Black
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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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Music is a science, it heals depression.
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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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Music is in me.
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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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Legalize it, and I will advertise it.
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
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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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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
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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’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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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 enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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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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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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