Song Quotes by Jimmy Cliff

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

I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better.

— Jimmy Cliff

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

Look at the waterfall! See how the shadow scroll. If you belive me, we'll stay together.

— Jimmy Cliff

“I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than to live life as a puppet or a slave”

— Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

— Jimmy Cliff

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

— Jimmy Cliff

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

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

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

— Jimmy Cliff

I need you everyday and we'll stay this way. The same ol'place we found It's ours forever.

— Jimmy Cliff

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

Reggae night and we'll be jammin 'till the morning light. Penny Reel just called got to get my things got to catch this ride.

— Jimmy Cliff

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever…

— Jimmy Cliff

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?

— Jimmy Cliff