Bill Laswell Quotes

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

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

I grew up with reggae music.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music.

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.

I listen to a lot of reggae.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

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

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

My dad used to play old dancehall records - Cutty Ranks, Ranking Dread, Michael Prophet, these type of dudes.

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.

My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.

I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.

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 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.

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

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

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

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.