25/06/2023
Bob Marley bio
Nesta Robert Marleyâknown to the world as Bob Marleyâwas a famous Jamaican reggae musician born on February 6th, 1945. He began his career in a band called the Wailers in 1963.
In the late 1960s, Marley became a Rastafarian and this heavily influenced his music.
During the 1970s, Marley formed the band Bob Marley and the Wailers. The group produced several successful albums that reached the masses and introduced the world to reggae music.
On May 11th, 1981, Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36. Although his life was tragically short, his musical talents live on.
These Bob Marley quotes aptly capture his spirituality and beliefs.
Bob Marley Quotes:
âI donât believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.â
âWhen one door is closed, donât you know, another is open.â
âDonât gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.â âZion Train, from the album Uprising (1980)
âIn this great future, you canât forget your past.â âNo Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)
âA hungry mob is an angry mob.â âThem Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
âAll dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say theyâre here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb⊠herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me canât find no reason.â âAll them say is, âit make you rebelâ. Against what?ââInterview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
You can see the video interview here:
âAs a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.â
âBabylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.â
One good thing about musicâwhen it hits you, you feel no pain.
âBetter to die fighting for freedom than b
