Even though Bob Marley passed away many years ago (May 11, 1981) his quotes are profound, and prophetic. We have compiled a list of over 100 Bob Marley quotes. They reflect current life, love, politics, relationships and economics. Bob Marley’s quotes are dynamic and relevant can be used in many situation in today’s world. Enjoy these Bob Marley quotes and feel free to add your comments or quotes at the end.
A little wine sometimes, that’s all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow – Bob Marley
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. – Bob Marley
Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet. – Bob Marley
But my hand was made strong by the hand of the Almighty – Bob Marley
Do you admire any women? Dat woman in America…Angela Davis. A woman like that who defends something me can appreciate that – Bob Marley
Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What’s the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear – Bob Marley
don´t forget your history nor your destiny. – Bob Marley
Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold. – Bob Marley
Don’t give up the fight, Stand up for your rights. – Bob Marley
Don’t Let them fool ya or even try to school ya – Bob Marley
Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright – Bob Marley
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.. – Bob Marley
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny – Bob Marley
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. – Bob Marley
Excuse me while I light my spliff good God I gotta take a lift – Bob Marley
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. – Bob Marley
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. – Bob Marley
Good times of today, are the bad thoughts of tomorrow. – Bob Marley
Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one – Bob Marley
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. – Bob Marley
Herb is the unification of mankind. – Bob Marley
Here come a man like me saying ‘Don’t vote!’ Rasta no vote – Bob Marley
Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can’t refuse it what to be got to be – Bob Marley
How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans – Bob Marley
How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look? – Bob Marley
I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man – Bob Marley
I don’t stand for black mans side, I don’t stand for white mans side, I stand for Gods side. – Bob Marley
I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side – Bob Marley
I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I’m driving a BMW anymore. I couldn’t stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble! – Bob Marley
I go to jail one time for no driver license – Bob Marley
I handle fame by not being famous…I’m not famous to me – Bob Marley
I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car – Bob Marley
I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we’ll never be blue – Bob Marley
I know I’m not perfect and I don’t live to be, but before you start pointing fingers…make sure you hands are clean!” – Bob Marley
I like to see you move with the rhythm I Like to see when you’re dancing’ from within – Bob Marley
I like Wagner’s music much better than anybody’s. It’s so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you – Bob Marley
I love the development of our music, that’s what I really dig about the whole thing. How we’ve tried to develop, y’know? It grows. That’s why every day people come forward with new songs. Music goes on forever – Bob Marley
I pledged to work for righteousness. God’s given me inspiration. God’s the boss, he tell me what to do – Bob Marley
I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin’ – Bob Marley
I want to say ‘I Shot The Police’ but the government would have made a fuss so I said ‘I Shot The Sheriff’ instead…but it’s the same idea: justice – Bob Marley
If I am guilty I will pay – Bob Marley
If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down! – Bob Marley
If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you’re saying praises to the devil, I say. – Bob Marley
I’m a man of God and me come to do God’s work – Bob Marley
I’m not educated. I’d be a damn fool if I was (educated)! – Bob Marley
in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty – Bob Marley
In this bright future you can’t forget your past. – Bob Marley
Is the foolish dog, bark at the flying bird – Bob Marley
I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through. – Bob Marley
Jah show every man him hand, and Jah has show I mine – Bob Marley
Jah will never give the power to a baldhead! – Bob Marley
Judge not unless you judge yourself – Bob Marley
Just can’t live that negative way…make way for the positive day. – Bob Marley
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The sigularity of every man and woman is Jah’s gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth – Bob Marley
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live! – Bob Marley
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again. ” – Bob Marley
Lively Up Yourself – Bob Marley
Love the life you live. live the life you love. – Bob Marley
Love would never leave us alone – Bob Marley
Man can’t do without God. Just like you’re thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can’t go without God – Bob Marley
Man is a universe within himself. – Bob Marley
Man to Man is so unjust – Bob Marley
Me can’t tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision – Bob Marley
Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all. – Bob Marley
My fear is my only courage – Bob Marley
My future is righteousness. – Bob Marley
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. – Bob Marley
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. – Bob Marley
No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow neither can be bought or sold – Bob Marley
No man can lead man, we have to have unity – Bob Marley
None but ourselves can free our minds. – Bob Marley
Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard – Bob Marley
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley
One Love, One Heart, Let’s get together and feel alright – Bob Marley
One love, one heart, one destiny. – Bob Marley
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive – Bob Marley
Open your eyes and look within, are you satisfied with the life you are living? We know where we are going, we know where we are from. – Bob Marley
Overcome the devils with a thing called love. – Bob Marley
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people. – Bob Marley
Politics no interest me. Dem devil business…. Dem a play with peoples minds. Never play with peoples minds – Bob Marley
Rastaman vibrations gonna cover the earth! Like the water cover the sea! – Bob Marley
Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day – Bob Marley
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. – Bob Marley
Sometimes you have to fight with music – Bob Marley
Tell the children the truth. – Bob Marley
The best thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain. – Bob Marley
The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when me explain a thing to you, you must ne – Bob Marley
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. – Bob Marley
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively – Bob Marley
The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory. – Bob Marley
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? – Bob Marley
The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead – Bob Marley
The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You’re a builder baby here I am a stone – Bob Marley
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley
There was a Buffalo Soldier; In the heart of America; Stolen from Africa, brought to America; Fighting on arrival, Fighting for survival. – Bob Marley
There will never be no love at all. – Bob Marley
Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me. – Bob Marley
To make music is a life that I have to live – Bob Marley
Until the end of the world,all whys will be answered,but now,you can only ask! – Bob Marley
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned…WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari – Bob Marley
Wake up and live – Bob Marley
We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man – Bob Marley
We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we’re fussin’ n fighting like we ain’t supposed to be – Bob Marley
Well, me don’t swim too tough so me don’t go in the water too deep – Bob Marley
When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open. – Bob Marley
When the cats away, the mice will play! – Bob Marley
When the race gets hard to run, it means you just can’t take the pace.Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day – Bob Marley
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect -and I don’t live to be- but before you start pointing fingers…make sure you hands are clean! – Bob Marley
You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry – Bob Marley
You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the timeYou can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time – Bob Marley
You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved. – Bob Marley
You have to be someone. – Bob Marley
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She’s loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect, you aren’t either & the two of you may never be perfect together. But if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking of you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she know’s you can break: her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.” – Bob Marley
Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy – Bob Marley
