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!
We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob Marley"
The more you accept herb, the more you accept rastafari.
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"Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever."
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All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?
As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Song Lyrics[edit]

Don't worry about a thing,
'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.

They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Zimbabwe, from the album Survival (1979)
Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.
Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin' (1973)
One love, one heart,
Let's get together and feel alright.
One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)
Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin' (1973)
A hungry mob is an angry mob.
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.
Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
Don't worry about a thing,
'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.
Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)
Your life is worth much more than gold.
Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.
Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978)
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!€ on Survival (1979)
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Have no fear for atomic energy, 'cause none of them can stop the time.
Redemption Song, from the album Uprising (1979)
We JAH people can make it work.
Work, from the album Uprising (1980)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Zion Train, from the album Uprising (1980)
They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
Could You Be Loved, from the album Uprising (1979)
In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.
Running Away, from the album Kaya