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 More Quotes by Jimmy Cliff More Quotes From Jimmy Cliff 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 outlook attention world I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better. Jimmy Cliff voice stills years 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. Jimmy Cliff flocks shepherds roles 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. Jimmy Cliff fantastic hollywood people 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 diplomacy ghetto want 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. Jimmy Cliff artist long thinking 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 able disease overcoming 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 done artist believe It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground." Jimmy Cliff ghetto oxygen mean People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want? Jimmy Cliff done want people It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally. Jimmy Cliff singers people world My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth. Jimmy Cliff sacred earth fire 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. Jimmy Cliff law two years 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. Jimmy Cliff energy dark looks 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 happenings return world 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. Jimmy Cliff ancient rebirth culture I live between Jamaica and Paris. Jimmy Cliff jamaica paris If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming. Jimmy Cliff swimming pain song 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 connections vulnerable missing 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. Jimmy Cliff able artist way
