Jimmy Cliff Quotes

Look at what’s happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it’s an amazing time to be living in. It’s a higher energy that we’re going to be coming into.

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

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 way to go. But I can’t turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind’s made up, I’ll never stop, my faith will see me through.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there’s no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

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 me.

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone’s life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

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 generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

Since we’re coming into a rebirth, and there’s a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

If I don’t channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

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 opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

I live between Jamaica and Paris.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it’s like that to me.