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
smooth-sailing answers able
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.
artist echoes expression
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.
song writing jamaica
I write songs on a universal basis. I was born out of the earth of Jamaica which I consider to be a part of Atlantis, the sunk continent, but that's my thing. But I write songs on a universal basis, not like Jamaican songs.
love-is essence
The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.
artist able way
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.
missing vulnerable my-family
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.
song pain swimming
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.
I live between Jamaica and Paris.
song war inspiration
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
thinking feelings good-thinking
Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.
culture ancient rebirth
We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and it came from the ancient Egyptians.
Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.
world
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.
dark energy
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.