Sonny Sandoval Quotes

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

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.

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.

It speaks truth when you listen to Bob Marley.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.

If I could go back in time and see anyone perform, it would have to be Bob Marley.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.

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.

I grew up with reggae music.

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

My mom's a secret Rastafarian.

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.

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.

You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics painted on walls, and you realise he has this almost religious significance to the underclass of the world. He's a guy born in a hut with no bed, and now he's probably the most listened-to artist in the world. It's fascinating.

Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.