Sean Kingston Quotes

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.

If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying.

I grew up with reggae music.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

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

Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.

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.

In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.

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 been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.

Bob Marley - yeah, I've always loved his stuff.

I like Bob Marley.

I feel as a singer and musician, it's my responsibility to talk about social issues, and you will hear about them in my music as well.

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.

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

It speaks truth when you listen to Bob Marley.

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.