Lee 'Scratch' Perry is quoted as saying: (1)" I'm an artist, a musician, a magician, a writer, a singer; I’m everything. My name is Lee Perry from the African jungle, I am originally from West Africa. I’m a man from somewhere else, but my origin is from Africa, straight to Jamaica through reincarnation; reborn in Jamaica. Superman comes to earth ‘cause him sick and tired; I’m not sick and tired because I’m learning what goes on, so when we get frustrated, that is when the music come down by rain drops to support all here with a broken heart and don’t know what to do! I have been programmed; many people who born again must come back to learn a lesson...have you heard of ET? I am ET, savvy? Savvy?" (2) "I felt nothing. Nothing at all. You see, before he died, I had had a message from Jah and I went to Bob’s Tuff Gong Studio to tell it to him. But at that time he was making the big money and he had no time to talk to Scratch. I went to tell him that he was going to die but he said that if Jah had a message for him, he would deliver it direct!" | | (3) When I left school there was nothing to do except field work. Hard, hard labour. I didn't fancy that. So I started playing dominoes. Through dominoes I learned to read the minds of others. This has proved eternally useful to me.".... (4) Those who love Lee 'Scratch' Perry music shall live forever, and those who fight against Lee 'Scratch' Perry shall die forever in Doomsville" (5) "it was only four tracks on the machine, but I was picking up twenty from the African Heritage squad!" |
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