“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”
I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin (1973)
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“until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!”
Source: Bob Marley Talking
Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin (1973)
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Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.
Uprising (1979)
“In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend… I'm gonna be your friend!”
Song High Tide Or Low Tide
“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!”
Could You Be Loved
Uprising (1979)
Disputed, No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)
“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”
Forever Loving Jah
Uprising (1979)
As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"
As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I?
“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
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“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
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“Your life is worth much more than gold.”
Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
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“Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.”
Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
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Song lyrics, Judge Not (single, 1961)
“The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.”
"Bob Marley interview on Marijuana" (1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFbFOxbPJk from the Come A Long Way documentary, made for New Zealand TV show Good Day (1979) with reporter Dylan Taite
“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”
Zion Train
Uprising (1979)
“Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.”
Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978)
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Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqB13iJu2o
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