Jimmy Cliff Quotes

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• Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory
• I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know…
• And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free…
• I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better.
• Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we…
• I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
• I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough…
• If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life…
• I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
• People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new…
• People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?
• Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.
• There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted all over the…
• The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
• My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.
• In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to…
• I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going…
• I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.
• If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.
• The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.

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