Bob Marley

One love, one heart, let's get together and feel alright.

Robert Nesta Marley (1945-02-06 – 1981-05-11), more famous as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist and songwriter and social activist. His vision of One World, One Love is a dream that inspired many.

Quotes

Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment…

Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight

• 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.
  • YouTube

• 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

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!

• Judge not, before you judge yourself.
  Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment,

• Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
  so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you

• I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be,
  so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean
  • Judge Not (1961)

• 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

• 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

Disputed

Say you just can't live that negative way
You know what I mean
Make way for the positive day
Cause it's a new day.

Some famous songs were made popular by Marley, but writing credits were actually given to his close friend Vincent Ford. Ford did not write these lyrics, Marley did, but gave Ford writing credits so he could use the royalty money to help pay for his Trenchtown soup kitchen. ^{[citation needed]}

• Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
  In this bright future you can't forget your past
  So dry your tears I say
  No woman, no cry
  No woman, no cry
  Little darlin' don't shed no tears
  No woman, no cry
  • No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

• Ev'rything's gonna be alright
  So, no woman, no cry.
  • No Woman, No Cry

• Say you just can't live that negative way
  You know what I mean
  Make way for the positive day
  Cause it's a new day.
  • Positive Vibration, from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)

External links

• Official Bob Marley website
• Official Wailers website
• Bob Marley at the Internet Movie Database
• The Wailers News
• www.wailers.co.uk – News related to Marley and The Wailers
• Bob Marley Magazine
• Bob Marley - Voice of the Sufferers
• Biblical References in Bob Marleys lyrics
• Marley elected one of the greatest songwriters (BBC News)
• Bob Marley's Welsh roots discredited (BBC News)
• Bob Marley's Memorial and Gravesite
• Free Bob Marley! He's been hijacked by stoned suburban teenagers
• Bob-Marley.es the spanish site of reggae king by the Cultural Association of Reggae ACR