Rob Ford Quotes

I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.

It speaks truth when you listen to Bob Marley.

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.

If I could go back in time and see anyone perform, it would have to be Bob Marley.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.

Bob Marley - yeah, I've always loved his stuff.

As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

I grew up with reggae music.

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.

Someone like a Bob Marley - he was singing Scripture.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

One of the first places where I started to respond to song lyrics was in reggae music. A lot of what I was responding to were references to the Old Testament. It was not that I had to adapt the lyrics to the sound. Reggae and the Old Testament are bound up together. There wasn't anything that I had to do.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

My mom's a secret Rastafarian.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.