Musicians From Jamaica

"We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool."

"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."

"Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever."

"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain."

"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: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!"

"Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out."

"If you are the big tree We are the small axe Sharpened to cut you down Ready to cut you down"

"A hungry mob is an angry mob."

"Never make a politician grant you a favour They will always want to control you forever."

"If you get down and you quarrel everyday You're saying prayers to the devils, I say."

"Truth is the light So you never give up the fight."

"When the rain falls, it won't fall on one man's housetop."

"Your life is worth much more than gold."

"Rapping and my style, we're brothers. If you go round now and ask rappers about Shabba, they know me as well as I know them. It's similar. The only difference is that they're using a funky beat. I'm on a reggae beat. I don't use the amount of lyrics that they use but it's definitely rapping."

"Now he took the music of like Mandrill, like "Fencewalk", certain disco records that had funky percussion breaks like The Incredible Bongo Band when they came out with "Apache" and he just kept that beat going. It might be that certain part of the record that everybody waits for ]]— they just let their inner self go and get wild. The next thing you know the singer comes back in and you'd be mad."

"Herc really slipped up. With the monstrous power he had he couldn't mix too well. He was playing little breaks but it would sound so sloppy. I noticed that the mixer he was using was a GLI 3800. It was a very popular mixer at that time. It's a scarcity today but it's still one of the best mixers GLI ever made. At the time he wasn't using no queueing. In other words, the hole was there for a headphone to go in but I remember he never had headphones over his ears. All of a sudden, Herc had headphones but I guess he was so used to dropping the needle down by eyesight and trying to mix it that from the audio part of it he couldn't get into it too well."