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 TOSHI have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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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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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 don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
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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 I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.
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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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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’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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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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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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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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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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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 man don’t come red, I come Black
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