Burning Spear Quotes

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

Music is emotion; it's a beautiful thing that connects people despite their age or differences or cultural differences and anything. We are still the same, and we can love the same things.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

Great artists suffer for the people.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

Join cooperatively with one another, put aside self-interest, and take on service to the public …

The legitimate object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

Government is just people acting on behalf of others rather than acting on behalf of themselves.

He serves his party best who serves the county best.