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20 Amazing Reggae Quotes

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If you are in need of some inspiration or just something to up-lift you, then these reggae quotes should do the trick.  They are taken from a wide range of influential reggae leaders and philosophers form the past and present. 

The topics these amazing quotes cover are quite vast and everyone should be able to get something from them, if not my efforts in compiling the list would be in vain.  I sincerely hope you enjoy these 20 amazing reggae quotes.  Please show your appreciation by bookmarking, liking and subscribing.  Again enjoy!

1.  Am kind of happy but am mourning, they're looking on but not seeing, they're born with sight and lacking vision, Oh Lord I pray for their salvation - Garnet Silk

2.  Time getting harder, still we striving for better and we're not gonna stop till the battle is won and we get justice, cause if you lose your stand, anyone will try to push you over, over and over.  Lift up your head and hold it up high, we know that we win the prize - Everton Blender

3.  Experience teaches wisdom, a happy father is the result of a wise son, slow to anger quick to reason, everything under sun has its season - Everton Blender

4.  Well, you see dabbling in politics, I don't know what that is, you see stand up and talk for my rights, I know what that is see, and I don't care who the guy is, Because my rights is my rights, like my life, you know, all I have is my life - Bob Marley

5. There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality - Peter Tosh  

6.  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 - Peter Tosh

7.  Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing  - Peter Tosh

8.  Don't let someone who is dreaming nightmare let you wake up in disaster - Shaba Ranks

9.  Well If I could live my life again differently, there are things I would do and things I wouldn't do.   Like drugs, I wouldn't deal with drugs and guns, I wouldn't deal with it, a whole lot of things, that's the truth - Gregory Isaacs

10.  Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know.  They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh.  The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know - Gregory Isaacs

11.  I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively.  So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is - Jimmy Cliff

12.  Somebody tell me because I really got to know, I read a lot of history, but things nah really show.  Why dem drop the bombs in Arabia? Why the child bawl and suffer in a Africa?  Leaders of the world just fighting for super power, but judgement ago fall pon dem head like real shower - Gentleman

13.  This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner - Burning Spear

14.  Every youth need to play an instrument if he is going to be in music, not in a little computer box and all dem ting deh.  Cause is real expression we dealing with - Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace 

15. Reggae music is not a joke thing, we can fun and have nice time and have money, but for our movements and for everybody to be happy, that's what it's for you know what a mean - Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace

17. The young people today are exceptionally bright, they don’t use manuals... For the next 50 years we should invest in our children. We should really encourage them so that every child can have a good education. - Bunny Rugs

18. The only thing we need to work on is the business part of the reggae music industry, but as far as the entertainment, the creative part of it is concerned, we don’t have to worry about it. -Bunny Rugs

19.I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself. - Chronixx 

20. What I have a problem with, is this big worldwide synchronization, this big worldwide oneness, where everybody is just like the same person. I couldn’t tell you when, was the last time I met an individual. - Chronixx

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