Ziggy Marley Quotes

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

Live music is better.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.