Diplo Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince.

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.

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

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

Reggae is a culture. It's easy, laid-back.

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

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

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.