Bob Marley, né Robert Nesta Marley le 6 février 1945 à Nine Miles , et mort le 11 mai 1981 à Miami , est un auteur-compositeur-interprète, chanteur et musicien jamaïcain.
Bob Marley rencontre de son vivant un succès mondial, et reste à ce jour le musicien le plus connu et le plus vénéré du reggae, tout en étant considéré comme celui qui a permis à la musique jamaïcaine et au mouvement rastafari de connaître une audience planétaire. Il a vendu plus de 200 millions de disques à travers le monde.
“Le truc bien avec la musique, c'est que lorsqu'elle vous frappe, vous ne ressentez aucune douleur.”
“Mieux vaut mourir en combattant pour la liberté que d'être prisonnier tous les jours de votre vie.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Variante: One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
“Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.”
Song lyrics
Contexte: Life is one big road with lots of signs,
So when you riding through the ruts,
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality
"Wake Up and Live!” on Survival (1979)
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”
Response, after being asked why he went ahead and performed in the concert "Smile Jamaica", two days after he, his wife and manager were wounded inside his home after an assault by unknown gunmen, thought to be politically motivated (5 December 1976), as quoted in Bob Marley The Father of Music (2010) by Jean-Pierre Hombasch, p. 5
Variante: The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
“Won't you help to sing,
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had,
Redemption songs.”
Redemption Song
Uprising (1979)
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.”
Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)
Song lyrics
“Judge not, before you judge yourself.
Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.”
Song lyrics, Judge Not (single, 1961)
“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.”
Interview for the Australian TV show 60 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnxGoglJck
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
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:
Uprising (1979)
Variante: None but ourselves can free our minds.
Contexte: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
“Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!”
Get Up, Stand Up, Burnin (1973), cowritten with Peter Tosh.
Song lyrics
Source: Bob Marley - Legend
As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Contexte: All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)
Disputed
