Stephen Marley Quotes

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

I started off singing when I was little. My parents have said I was singing at 3 years old. So I think it was just something I probably came into this world wanting to do and knowing I was going to do.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don't want people to think it's just a stepping stone in my career. A lot of actors go that route as a way of building their careers. I don't want it to be seen as that.

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

It's in my blood to perform.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.