Damian Marley Quotes

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I write my music.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I started writing songs at age 15.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

We became the songs we wrote.

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I started writing songs when I was eight.