Peter Tosh Quotes

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

I really like dancehall. I really like reggae. I'm a big fan. Bob Marley and all that.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

I grew up with reggae music.

Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.

I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

I listen to a lot of reggae.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

If you listen to all my earlier stuff, it wasn't 'authentic reggae,' so to speak.

My mom used to always play hip-hop around the crib, but moreso than that, she played reggae, and I grew up on reggae music more than I grew up on hip-hop.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

I think music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

I love reggae music; reggae music's like my go-to.

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

The song 'Gave It All Away' has a reggae sound.

My dad used to play reggae and Afrobeats. Every Sunday, we used to have these records, vinyls. And he would just play all of them - Super Cat, Ninja Man, Buju Banton.

You can consciously make a difference with music. Bob Marley is one of those few artists that everyone can say that they love. He makes you feel good. It's very real.