Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican ska & reggae musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and actor. He is the only living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth1 April 1948
CountryJamaica
people hollywood fantastic
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.
fire earth sacred
My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.
musical done form
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.
attention world outlook
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.
shepherds roles flocks
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.
men puppets slave
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
song knows greater
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.
love-is knowing eternal-love
Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.
fighting men puppets
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 man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
mean together hindsight
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.
overcoming consciousness rebirth
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.
giving soul satisfaction
I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.
travel heart mind
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.
country cities people
In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.