Ska Music Quotes

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

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

One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.

I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

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

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.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

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

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

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music.

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

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.

When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

I listen to a lot of Sublime. Dude, I'm obsessed with Sublime. You have no idea.

When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites.

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.

In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music.

I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved hip hop and reggae music, so we have always sort of refused a street style that is something that we are used to. Something that makes us comfortable and sounds good to us.

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

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

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.