61 Reggae Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing. Jonny Greenwood

Life Music Great You Worth Rest Style Would About Varied Could Reach Always How Hearing Friends Listen Reggae Your

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too. Kat Dahlia

Music You People Listening Party Too Everywhere Out Know Also Always Hip-Hop Go South Up Get Listen Just Being Influence Grew Reggae Loving Really

Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs. Linton Kwesi Johnson

Work People Though Like Discovering Reggae Younger Younger People Even

If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. But it's something I grew up with. It's probably something I appreciate more now. In the '80s, I was all about New Wave and synth pop - New Order and Depeche Mode and Eurythmics and Michael Jackson and tons and tons and tons of Prince. Marlon James

Relationship You Country Wave Synth About Something More New Prince Another Rock New Order Up Michael Michael Jackson Mode Jackson Depeche Order Grew Reggae Pop Now Appreciate Tons

When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside. Matisyahu

Music Me Way Marley Inside Outside Matches Always Been Going Listened Loved Reggae Bob Bob Marley Growing Started

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are. Matisyahu

Music Ideas Lot Reggae Jewish

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters. Melanie Fiona

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. Moby

Music Me You People Walk Punk Big Down Caribbean Types Latino Musically Minutes Sacred New Islamic Hear Rockers Big Influence Five York New York Influence Different Reggae Many Homeless Different Types Street Playing

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. Nas

Music Memories Strong Big Bass Way Definitely Rap Rap Music Messages Around Sounds Were Mixed Lines Heavy Reggae Earliest Earliest Memories

I really like dancehall. I really like reggae. I'm a big fan. Bob Marley and all that. Natti Natasha

Big Marley Like Big Fan Fan Reggae Bob Bob Marley Really

Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.' OMI

I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist. OMI

Am Artist Reggae

I listened to a lot of reggae music, a lot of Caribbean, a lot of gospel, a lot of rock, a lot of country, hip-hop... you know, so it just gave me perspective when it came to music and what I liked. Ro James

Music Me You Perspective Country Gave Caribbean Know Liked Gospel Rock Hip-Hop Came Lot Listened Just Reggae

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. Roland Gift

Myself Me People Made Big Birmingham Indian Indian People Redding Sing Around Were West Lot Up Person Wanna Influences Reggae While Who Growing Growing Up Early

The song 'Gave It All Away' has a reggae sound. Ronan Keating

Song Gave Sound Reggae Away

Reggae is a culture. It's easy, laid-back. Shaggy

Culture Easy Reggae

The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity. Shaggy

Fraternity Small Reggae

I'm one of those artists that nobody ever sees coming. We started with Virgin in 1993. If you look at the climate of that time in reggae and you were to pick the top five people that'd have a shot at having mainstream success, I was nowhere in that equation at all. Shaggy

If you look at reggae and dancehall artists in general, there isn't really a big success story. A Shabba Ranks or a Yellowman might have a hit, but there's never a follow up. There's no consistency. Shaggy

Success You Consistency Big Ranks Follow Follow-Up General Never Look Up Hit Artists Big Success Story Reggae Might Success Story Really

The Police, they were the guys that were like the gateway to the mainstream. In England, there was a very strong reggae movement that was going on. Anything that was happening in reggae happened out of England. They were brilliant. They could spot a sound that was cool, the 'it' sound. Shaggy

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them. Sonny Sandoval

Me World Listening Punk Relate Say Hop Bad Born Something More Tendencies Could Had Opened New Like Hip Hip-Hop Brains Up Bands New World Reggae Them Then Whole Whole New World Hardcore Started Suicidal

Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We've been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n' roll, metal, reggae - and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost. Sonny Sandoval

Song Sometimes Too Much Punk Diversity Lost Think Too Kids Some Through Over Like Because Metal Rock Sound Rock-N-Roll Been Bands Roll Place Reggae Might Much Whole Hardcore Album

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