| | I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me. |
| | I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue. |
| | I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead... but it's the same idea: justice. |
| | I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through. |
| | If I am guilty I will pay. |
| | If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down. |
| | In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty. |
| | It not we against the system, it the system against we. |
| | Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine. |
| | Love would never leave us alone. |
| | Man is a universe within himself. |
| | Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool. |
| | Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side |
| | Money can't buy life |
| | Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960s, when I first start singing. |
| | My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. |
| | 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. |
| | No man can lead man, we have to have unity. |
| | One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. |
| | Overcome the devils with a thing named love. |
| | Politics no interest me. Dem Devil business. Dem a play with people's minds. Never play with people's minds. |
| | Puss and dog, they get together, what's wrong with loving one another? |
| | Stand up for your rights. |
| | The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. |
| | The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. |
| | To make music is a life that I have to live. |
| | We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be. |
| | Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep. |
| | When one door is closed don't you know another is open. |
| | When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace. |
| | You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry. |
| | They say: only the fittest of the fittest should survive, stay alive! |
| | A little wine sometimes. Spirits are bad, alcohol wrong. Herb does grow. |
| | Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet. |
| | Every man got a right to decide his own destiny. |
| | He who feels it, knows it more. |
| | Herb is the unifier of the people. |
| | How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, to see the unification of all Africans. |
| | I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man. |
| | I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW. BMW make pure trouble! |