Jimmy Cliff Quotes: top 43 famous quotes about Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff Quotes & Sayings

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I live between Jamaica and Paris. — Jimmy Cliff

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 beginning. — Jimmy Cliff

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. — Vikram Seth

The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica. — Jimmy Cliff

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 — Jimmy Cliff

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better. — Jimmy Cliff

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! — 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

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that. — Jimmy Cliff

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment. — Anthony Robbins

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out. — Jimmy Cliff

discovery and mischief are two sides of the very same coin. — Hope Jahren

We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things. — Jimmy Cliff

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it. — Jimmy Cliff

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

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance. — Jimmy Cliff

The secret ingredient to sex is love. — Lars Von Trier

Stealing swords," Royce muttered mostly to himself. "Okay, let's take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start cursing. — Michael J. Sullivan

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. — Jimmy Cliff

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. — 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 very vulnerable. — Jimmy Cliff

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction. — Jimmy Cliff

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album. — Jimmy Cliff

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

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. — William E. Rothschild

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

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing. — Jimmy Cliff

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. — Jim Carrey

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

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother. — Jimmy Cliff

The heart of a yogi should always bear good-will and thoughts that benefit others. — Amit Ray

I think we all have a role to play in life. — Jimmy Cliff

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. — Augustus Hare

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that. — Jimmy Cliff

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit. — Earl Campbell

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true. — Richard G. Scott

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie. — Jimmy Cliff

The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind. — Humphrey Bogart

...true love is my religion... — John Geddes

We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The — Cinda Williams Chima

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. — George R R Martin

The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go. — Jimmy Cliff

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life. — Jimmy Cliff