Jimmy Cliff Quotes
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And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
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I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
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Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.
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Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.
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It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground."
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I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
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If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.
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I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.
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I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.
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We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.
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People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?
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I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.
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My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
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Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory
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I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.
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Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.
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Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.
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My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.
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I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.
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In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
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The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.
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I live between Jamaica and Paris.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.
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Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.
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Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them
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I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is
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I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
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I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.
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I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.
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