Bob Marley słynne cytaty
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I would really like to see happen. I'd like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that's all. (ang.)
Jam's about my pride and truth I cannot hide
Too Keep you satisfied.
True love that now exist is the love I can't resist
So jam by my side.(ang.)
Źródło: Jammin, album Exodus (1977)
Bob Marley Cytaty o ludziach
This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die don't ask me why (ang.)
Źródło: Natural Mystic
Przeciw czemu?
All dese governments and dis an' dat, dese people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, ya know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make ya rebel'. AGAINST WHAT? (ang.)
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth (ang.)
Źródło: Get Up, Stand Up; album Ambition (1981).
„Im więcej ludzi pali zioło, tym bardziej Babilon upada.”
The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. (ang.)
Bob Marley cytaty
„Mój dom jest w mojej głowie, mój dom jest zawsze tam, gdzie ja.”
My home is in my head, my home is always where I am. (ang.)
„Żaden człowiek nie może przewodzić drugiemu, musimy być jednością.”
No man can lead man, we have to have unity. (ang.)
„Nigdy więcej słodkich słów z ust marionetek,
nigdy więcej słodkich słów z ust hipokrytów.”
No more sweet talk from a puppet
no more sweet talk from the hypocrits (ang.)
Źródło: Can't Take Them Slogans No More, album Africa Unite (2005)
I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble! (ang.)
Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit (ang.)
Źródło: Redemption Song
„Kobieta zakryła twarz i płakała,
Jej syn został postrzelony na ulicy i umarł
Tylko z powodu systemu”
Woman hold her head and cried,
As her son had been shot down in the street and died
Just because of the system (ang.)
Źródło: Johnny Was
Sheriff john brown always hated me,
For what, I dont know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow –
He said kill them before they grow (ang.)
Źródło: I shot the Sheriff
„Nie mam wykształcenia ale za to mam inspiracje. Jeśli posiadałbym wykształcenie byłbym durniem.”
Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool. (ang.)
Got to put aside them segregation
Got to put aside them organisation
We got to put aside them denomination
Or there will never be no love at all
There will never be no love at all (ang.)
Źródło: One Foundation, album Burnin’ (1973)
„Tworzenie muzyki, to życie przez które muszę przejść.”
To make music is a life that I have to live (ang.)
Uh! open your eyes and look within:
Are you satisfied (with the life youre living)? uh!
We know where were going, uh!
We know where were from.
Were leaving babylon,
Were going to our father land (ang.)
Źródło: Exodus
Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs; Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery!
None but ourselves can free our minds!
(…)
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? (ang.)
Źródło: Redemption song, album Uprising (1980)
„Gdyby marihuana była legalna, nie było by takiej przyjemności z jej palenia.”
If marijuana would be legalized, there wouldn't be pleasure for smoking. (ang.)
„Dobre chwile dzisiejszego dnia są smutnymi wspomnieniami jutra.”
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow (ang.)
„Wiem, że nie wiesz ile życie naprawdę jest warte.”
I know you don't know, what life is really worth (ang.)
Źródło: Get Up, Stand Up
„Moja muzyka walczy przeciwko systemowi, który uczy żyć i umierać.”
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. (ang.)
„To nie my jesteśmy przeciwko systemowi, tylko system przeciwko nam.”
It not we against the system, it the system against we. (ang.)
Bob Marley: Cytaty po angielsku
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
Wariant: 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
Kontekst: 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
Wariant: 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)
Wariant: None but ourselves can free our minds.
Kontekst: 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
Źródło: 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
Kontekst: 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)
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