My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity..

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The inse….

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did tha….

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of bo….

We JAH people can make it work..

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?.

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 pla….

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almo….

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles..

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion..

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time..

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality..

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order.".

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again..

A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to ….

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left..

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least wor….

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist..

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical langu….

I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no….

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can ….