With acting, you have to become someone else. That’s the fun part of it for me – to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
I regret I didn’t ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn’t really take the time out and put the effort in and do that. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
I wanted to travel the world – I don’t how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world… towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren’t accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an’ cold, like the concrete and steel. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
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 anymore, but every time I go back, I’m still seeing the same things that I lived. Jimmy Cliff Read Quote
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 Read Quote
