Stephen Marley Quotes

Music has influenced my life and is one of the most treasured things for me. It speaks a universal language and for me, it is extremely important to stay connected to it.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I like making music which connects to me and the real situations in life.

Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.