Best quotes by Burning Spear on Music

Checkout quotes by Burning Spear on Music

• ‟ I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.

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• ‟ The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

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• ‟ I'm not a rich person financially, but I am in mind and soul. I have so much energy and strength, and I can do a lot of things that make me, and I think my fans, quite happy. When everything's gone, music alone shall live on.

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• ‟ Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

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• ‟ Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

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• ‟ Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

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• ‟ Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.

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• ‟ Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

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• ‟ There's more to being a musician than just making music.

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• ‟ Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.

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• ‟ Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

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• ‟ I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

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• ‟ Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

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• ‟ I like any music I can feel.

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• ‟ If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

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