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.
PETER TOSHI 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?
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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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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Music is a science, it heals depression.
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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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People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means. ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
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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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People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it’s a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it’s a great music, a healing music.
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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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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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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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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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