Peter Tosh Quotes on Reggae Music

Peter Tosh was a famous Jamaican reggae singer. He is best known for being a part of the Bob Marley and the Wailers group between 1963-1976 and for his successful solo career where he made much more hardcore protest songs. Popular Peter Tosh albums include “Legalize It”, “Equal Rights”, “Bush Doctor”, “Mystic Man”, “Wanted Dread & Alive”, “Mama Africa”, and “No Nuclear War”.

Mini biography: Born Winston Hubert McIntosh on the 19th of October, 1944 in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, Jamaica. The musician was shot dead in his home while being robbed on the 11th of September, 1987 in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 42.

List of Famous Peter Tosh Music Quotes

I don’t know how I come by it. Just exploring the garden of inspiration. Peter Tosh

We are people who fight for our rights, to get to our rights. The spiritual environment has remained the same. But because the message of the music must get out there to the people, we are the ones who must get the message to the people. Peter Tosh

Reggae music is a very spiritual music. You have to be spiritual to enter the garden of inspiration. When you enter the garden of inspiration there’s so much different music, it’s like going to a flower garden where you see blue flowers, white flowers, pink flowers, green flowers. All of them is beautiful. So when you go and explore that garden you can pick, choose and refuse because inspiration is unfinishable. Peter Tosh

For example when I ask EMI why the Live album wasn’t released they told me they released 40,000 America in one day. It was sold off in one day. And no more was put out from that time. These things are the things that I bombaclaat talk about. Peter Tosh

I love every reggae music. And I love every reggae musicians. As I say it is not everyone paint the same picture. While the same time, everyone have to live. It is not everyone who has the same spiritual ingredients. Peter Tosh

I never marry, yes man. You see, any woman that I take unto myself is my wife. I can’t wait for some guy to come with the contract to make it legal. Peter Tosh

It’s like eighty percent of the world is poor. See? And whenever you have rise, inflation rises and cost of living steppin’ up and people wages is stationary and the shitstem continue to be the same way. And all the people get these promises from politicians what they will do ten years later. Ten years accomplish and nothing happens, and the same shitstem goes on over and over again and the people remain the same way. Peter Tosh

There are always elements there to try to stop anything that is awakening to black people. If there is one who try to give a message to black people, there is always obstacles. They always try to put obstacles in the way. Peter Tosh

Life in Kingston? Same shit still.. The same ghetto life with our people caught up in the shitstym and politricks. Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh Album Cover (Legalize It 1976)

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