Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.


Burning Spear

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
OSCAR WILDE
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
ANNE LAMOTT
I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer i...
B.O.B
With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I&#...
ESTELLE
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people w...
BOB NEWHART
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks...
ZIGGY MARLEY
I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt lim...
JOHN DELANEY
It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the inte...
DAMIAN MARLEY
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN
Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae's consciousness was built on a message. My music sp...
STEPHEN MARLEY
At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ...
TYGA
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone o...
LAURA LINNEY
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t...
LOU RAWLS
Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn&...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like,...
DAVID BYRNE
When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a...
ATO ESSANDOH
Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered,...
MELANIE FIONA
People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
JOEL OSTEEN
I'm not a big equipment guy; I think that people are a little bit shocked by that. I really don&...
DAVE SITEK
Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing abou...
KEVIN BACON
I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I...
HIROMI UEHARA
Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it my...
SAM SMITH
I think it's very insulting to say, 'White people don't understand.' What are you ta...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
BRUCE STERLING
Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It does...
VERA WANG
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people togethe...
BURNING SPEAR
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean mon...
TRACY MORGAN
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - ever...
BURNING SPEAR
People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
ISAAC HANSON
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a...
ALICIA KEYS
I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that some...
HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or lon...
GEORGE HALAS
No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to ...
ELIZABETH HOLMES
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
NEWT GINGRICH
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, ...
ALAN BALL
It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people&...
DOUGLAS HODGE
You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there c...
ALEX NEWELL
What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, d...
MICKEY HART
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or...
ANNIE PARISSE
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you...
JAY-Z
People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'...
TERI GARR
People don't have fun making music all the time.
KEN HILL
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll h...
MOBY
I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thin...
ALICE EVE
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ...
ADELE
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then ...
LAURYN HILL
People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facil...
GERHARD RICHTER
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I me...
DIANA WYNNE JONES
In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no...
ANGEL CABRERA
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with ever...
ASAP FERG
When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ...
RYAN CARTWRIGHT
I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha...
CHANCE THE RAPPER
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please busine...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our mu...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of jus...
ANDERSON PAAK
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'...
BEN KATCHOR
Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing...
MADS MIKKELSEN
I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolif...
HUGH MASEKELA
One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It'...
DANIEL WOODRELL
I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla...
F. GARY GRAY
I don't know anything about music.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People...
GEORGE A. ROMERO
I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that ...
BEBE REXHA
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali...
GABRIEL BYRNE
If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab...
KELLY ROWLAND
I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local gov...
HEATHER BROOKE
I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me.
NEYMAR
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a...
ZIGGY MARLEY
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what peop...
AARON KOBLIN
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#...
CARLENE CARTER
It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li...
JULIA ROBERTS
You know, most people really don't know me.
MARILYN MONROE
I've heard people say, 'Why do you have to do a show that's called 'Black Girls Rock...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I ha...
MARTIN GORE
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN
Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
HERB KELLEHER
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as ...
EMINEM
I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, bu...
ALESSIA CARA
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
IAN HUNTER
You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g...
LORRAINE BRACCO
You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes ...
KIRSTEN DUNST
The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funn...
DANIEL BALDWIN
I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something pos...
JOHNNY WEIR
I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get...
KAT DAHLIA
Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that ...
GWEN STEFANI
When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, ...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY
I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love p...
PETE WENTZ
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don...
DAN AYKROYD
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

More Burning Spear

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more ...
BURNING SPEAR
When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and...
BURNING SPEAR
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people togethe...
BURNING SPEAR
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - ever...
BURNING SPEAR
It's a good thing and it's actually the second time that I'll be there. It's really good for the mus...
BURNING SPEAR
[When he played the first show,] it was very exciting as an artist. I'd always heard about Red Rocks...
BURNING SPEAR
When you can present something to the people wherein the people don't think that something like that...
BURNING SPEAR
There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many build...
BURNING SPEAR
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
BURNING SPEAR
Our music/they think that we lose it,
BURNING SPEAR
We plan to do other things for this place which we know everyone will appreciate.
BURNING SPEAR
Students have to be taught about everything. So therefore the knowledge of the students would develo...
BURNING SPEAR
The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs...
BURNING SPEAR
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it canno...
BURNING SPEAR
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn...
BURNING SPEAR
I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turn...
BURNING SPEAR
I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength...
BURNING SPEAR
As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count ...
BURNING SPEAR
People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I s...
BURNING SPEAR
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly ...
BURNING SPEAR
I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.
BURNING SPEAR
I like any music I can feel.
BURNING SPEAR
My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people c...
BURNING SPEAR
Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like some...
BURNING SPEAR
There's more to being a musician than just making music.
BURNING SPEAR
If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.
BURNING SPEAR
Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate withou...
BURNING SPEAR
When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It&...
BURNING SPEAR
I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.
BURNING SPEAR
Rasta is to know. Rasta is to answer, which is the final step.
BURNING SPEAR
I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor...
BURNING SPEAR
Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? ...
BURNING SPEAR
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about t...
BURNING SPEAR
Turnovers were our biggest setback. We never got into any half-court rhythm.
ANNA SPEAR
The rebounding difference was way too high. We knew the inside game was going to be a key, and it wa...
ANNA SPEAR
Our defense is getting a lot more adhesive. It's coming together. The offense, however, is still bro...
ANNA SPEAR
Lace Collins really had some great leadership tonight. I was really pleased with her play.
ANNA SPEAR
I wasn't happy with the way we rebounded.
ANNA SPEAR
We played them a solid game in the first half, but we let go midway through the third quarter.
ANNA SPEAR
I have several other candidates that are good prospects, so onward and upward.
ROB SPEAR
She ran her hand over his cock and said, "This is the only thing I ever want to come between us." TERRY SPEAR Truck-only lanes is a significant priority of the department, both in the concept for I-75/575 and a...
DAVID SPEAR
That will be a little less intrusive.
DAVID SPEAR
It's not a simple process. It's an important part of the plan, but just one small step.
DAVID SPEAR
[The consultant will look at] construction issues, utility issues, right-of-way issues, traffic issu...
DAVID SPEAR
That's a huge project. This one will dwarf that, in terms of scope, impact and right of way.
DAVID SPEAR
The development plan was certainly satisfactory, ... The department is very satisfied, very pleased ...
DAVID SPEAR
I'd like to hope none, but it is going to be confusing, and we do want people to be cautious.
DAVID SPEAR
That is a moving violation. There are fines and points against your license.
DAVID SPEAR
That's a true dilemma. But we don't know any way to get around it. The work has got to be done.
DAVID SPEAR
So much of what contractors use is petroleum derivative stuff.
DAVID SPEAR
Many more of the infections we see are caused by the resistant bacteria. The bacteria has developed ...
MARGARET SPEAR
Do not leave your portable CD players, your purses or your wallets on the front seats of your cars. ...
GARY SPEAR
Our overall crime rate would have changed dramatically, if you take out those additional vehicle bur...
GARY SPEAR
It poses a dilemma for us because more and more property crimes are occurring. We are making arrests...
GARY SPEAR
Vehicle burglary clearly was the category driving the overall property crime increase.
GARY SPEAR
I was pleased that our violent crime rate was down a little, overall. Our domestic battery, aggravat...
GARY SPEAR
We desperately need a home game, and we're frantically trying to find one.
ROB SPEAR
You watch what Nick has been able to accomplish in one year, how much we've improved, and we're goin...
ROB SPEAR
They're used to playing for 32 minutes. We aren't typically very deep at Timberlake and we have I th...
JASON SPEAR
We were hoping to be the first ever (Timberlake team) to get to the Final Four and we were about as ...
JASON SPEAR
Colby, his last two games of his career, he scored 25 and 26 points and that was his career high ton...
JASON SPEAR
Bite me, love.
TERRY SPEAR
What we understood when we were retained ... was that you all were looking for something new. You we...
JOE SPEAR
The East Wing was the kind of building that this project needs to become. It still looks fresh. We w...
JOE SPEAR
We think there will be a lot of upper-deck home runs.
JOE SPEAR
We felt D.C. deserved to distinguish itself. Another red brick ballpark would be just like those in ...
JOSEPH SPEAR
We wanted something that was of this time and of this place.
JOSEPH SPEAR
We want people to still be discovering new things about this park in season two,
JOSEPH SPEAR
I'm excited that so many people want us to do better than we've done before, ... This stadium is goi...
JOSEPH SPEAR
From back here, ... you could look up [through an open section in the wall], even if you're outside ...
JOSEPH SPEAR
It depends on who you ask, ... There's a federal city and a local city. We are 100 percent committed...
JOSEPH SPEAR
Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has ...
CHIEF LONG SPEAR WHO HUNTS BEAVERS