Peter Tosh
Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?Collection: Thanksgiving
I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?Collection: Music
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?Collection: Travel
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.Collection: Equality
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.Collection: Death
People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.Collection: Education
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.Collection: Best
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.
It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.
I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
My father was a bad boy, a rascal. That's what him do for a living. He just go around and have a million and one children!
My earthly parents don't know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren't taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
Was not a breakup, you know - is just going three different ways and sending the music in three different directions. Was just that my inspiration was growing, and my cup filled and runneth over... One man grow mango, another grow pear.
I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!
I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.
Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That's why me go write a song called 'Illegitimate Children.' It took me years to find out I was one.
I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?
My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.
My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me.
I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.Collection: Thinking
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.Collection: Philosophy
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowingCollection: People
Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.Collection: Beautiful
Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.Collection: Trying
Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.Collection: Certificates
It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.Collection: Men
I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.Collection: Rights
To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.Collection: Running
There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the realityCollection: Live Life
I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.Collection: Fine
My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.Collection: Song
If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.Collection: Heart
I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.Collection: Way
Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.Collection: Teaching
I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?Collection: Regret
Legalize it, and I will advertise it.Collection: Marijuana
How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celestial. I am celestial, mon. I am here, there and everywhere. I live among men so I must adjust myself. When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too, mon.Collection: Men
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?Collection: Axes
If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.Collection: Singers
What the Rastaman represents is positivity.Collection: Positivity
It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?Collection: Spiritual
Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime, monCollection: Reggae
I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.Collection: Beautiful