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
believe artist done
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
thinking artist long
I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.
years voice stills
I’ve abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact – really, it’s better.
generosity trying one-thing
If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.
thinking play roles
I think we all have a role to play in life.
ghetto want diplomacy
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!
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.