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 go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake.
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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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I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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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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Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
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I man don’t come red, I come Black
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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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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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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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Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
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What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
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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’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
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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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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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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 don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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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 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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Music is a science, it heals depression.
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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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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 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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