KUTIPAN
Ini adalah beberapa kutipan dari orang orang ternama diambil dari berbagai sumber.
Paling tidak untuk kita berfikir... just for fun and enjoy!
B o b M a r l e y
"I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through."
"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall."
"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that,
but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever."
"If politics deal with prophecy, then good. If deal with sommat else then it no good.
Now
is a wicked time, but wickedness come to a perpetual end. Prophecy a
fulfil."
"I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man."
"If God hadn't given me a song to sing, I wouldn't have a song to sing."
"Everything that God said in prophecies have to come true.
It's just that some people are more aware of it,
more
aware of the spiritual part of life."
"My future is righteousness."-February, 1976
"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality."-February, 1976
"I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me."-December, 1974
"I'm a man of God and me come to do God's work."-June, 1975
"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."-June ,1976
"I go to jail one time for no driver license."-February, 1976
"You have to be someone."-July, 1979
"Overcome the devils with a thing named love."-June 1975
"Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep."-July, 1975
"A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow."-June, 1976
"I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers,
and not because I need an expensive car."-1977
"(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!"-September, 1980
B r a d N o w e l l (Sublime)
"The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels
that people think are so necessary to slap on music. It seems like people get afraid of
a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction.
They will be up all night trying to slap a label on sublime.
Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody."
P r i n c e B u s t e r
"True ska is music with a soul."
"Too many imitators were following up with a phony ska style which
sounded more like the old-time twist than the real thing."
"You sing what you feel. Slick it up and you take that soul away..."
T e r r y H a l l (The Specials)
"The clothes are almost as important, we are not a mod band
or a skinhead band. The Rudeboy thing is a real mixture."
J e r r y D a m m e r s (The Specials/founder of 2Tone)
"Ska is just somewhere to start, it's dead simple,
but there are so many variation you can make of it."
"2Tone has become a monster, like Frankestein's monster.
There's such a danger of it becoming too commercialised.
People don't believe us, but we'd do this anyway"
"It is not enough to be anti-racist yourself. You have to be a positive anti-racist.
You have to make a stand against it, because otherwise nothing changes."
S u g g s (Madness)
"When Sham 69 came along I grew my hair."
D e s m o n d D e k k e r
"Over here reggae, ska and rocksteady is new and the kids love it.
What they don't realize is that The Beatles have used a ska beat on Ob-La-Di"
Q u i n o (Big Mountain)
"I’m a hard revolutionary, but singing love songs is a beautiful part of life.
It’s one of the joys we should all take advantage of."
A l e x H u g h e s (Judge Dread)
" I' ve never been unhappy. It's not about fame or money,
it's
about getting the most out of life..." -December
1997