Mat Kearney Quotes

If you go to pretty much everywhere in the developing world, you will find Bob Marley murals, and you'll find people playing his music.

It speaks truth when you listen to Bob Marley.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

I grew up with reggae music.

There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.

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 like Bob Marley.

Jamaica actually had a pretty big influence on my life.

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n' roll fantasy.

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.

My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.

Bob Marley was always ready to deal with the politics of what was happening in the world but, at the same time, not lose sight of the fact that he's a musician.

As kids, we all thought Bob Marley was Maori.

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

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.

I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

I used to listen to that song, 'I just wanna be successful!' I was like, 'I'ma be where bruh at.' I used to watch him on 'Degrassi.'