When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Look at the waterfall! See how the shadow scroll. If you belive me, we'll stay together. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than to live life as a puppet or a slave” — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I need you everyday and we'll stay this way. The same ol'place we found It's ours forever. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
