My songs is hard stuff which politicians don’t want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
PETER TOSHIn 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.
More Peter Tosh Quotes
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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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It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?
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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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I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.
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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
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When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too.
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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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Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.
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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 don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
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Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
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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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It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.
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I’ve got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
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Music is a science, it heals depression.
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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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I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?
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Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
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I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
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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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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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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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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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Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.
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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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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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