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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

Peter Tosh

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
PETER TOSH

Garden Music Travel
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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Body Feeling Heart Mind Music Soul
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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Aware Diagnose Divine Parents Potential Quality Teaching
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?
PETER TOSH

Creation Divine Fade Flesh Spirit
Is word, sound, and power that break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression and rule equality.
PETER TOSH

Barrier Drive Equality Oppression Rule Words
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.
PETER TOSH

Children Song Writing
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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Father Guitar Instrument Mother Play
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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Education Graduation People School
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.
PETER TOSH

Aspect Follow Life
I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.
PETER TOSH

Believe Church Parents Time
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.
PETER TOSH

Cross Crown Motivatioanl Philosophy
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.
PETER TOSH

God Lord People Sick Teaching
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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Church Teaching Try
I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
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Consequence Politics Suffering
Music is a science, it heals depression.
PETER TOSH

Depression Music One Liner Science
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don’t want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
PETER TOSH

Ignorance People Politics Radio Song Station Want

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