"Music is like air that we breathe. And once it's there, everybody breathes it. The industry, to me, is the first time I came out of my mother's womb. And I say [screaming] and I started making my sound and I never stopped. Music can highlight awareness. And from that awareness, people can take some kind of action to better the situation. I think that's the role music has played through the ages."
"And I think it's the role that it is playing now. And I think that is the role that it can play."
"Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae singer who helped popularize the genre around the world with songs like You Can Get It If You Really Want and The Harder They Come, has died. He was 81."
Jimmy Cliff was a Jamaican reggae singer who helped popularize reggae worldwide with songs such as You Can Get It If You Really Want and The Harder They Come. He died at 81. He described music as like air that people breathe and said the music industry felt like his emergence from his mother's womb. He said he began making his sound and never stopped. He said music can highlight awareness and inspire people to take action to improve situations, and that music has played and can continue to play that role through the ages.
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