Top 36 Best Fela Kuti Quotes

#1. That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation ... it enhances all your five senses.

Fela Kuti

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#2. Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#3. Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#4. Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

Nneka

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#5. To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

Fela Kuti

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#6. I could never leave my home ... It inspires me a lot.

Fela Kuti

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#7. I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars.

Fela Kuti

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#8. My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom,

Fela Kuti

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#9. Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

Fela Kuti

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#10. Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music ... musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

Fela Kuti

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#11. The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

Solange Knowles

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#12. The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

Fela Kuti

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#13. If it is not fit to live in, then our job is to make it fit.

Fela Kuti

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#14. Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

Fela Kuti

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#15. With my music, I create change ... I am using my music as a weapon.

Fela Kuti

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#16. The secret of life is to have no fear.

Fela Kuti

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#17. When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

Fela Kuti

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#18. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

Guy Kawasaki

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#19. Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

King Krule

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#20. I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

Fela Kuti

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#21. I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

Dolly Parton

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#22. People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

Clay Guida

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#23. That smile was dangerous, she thought - a quicksand smile if ever there was one. Easy to wander in; perhaps more difficult to wander back out.

Stephen King

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#24. I want peace. Happiness. Not only for myself. For everybody.

Fela Kuti

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#25. You cannot sing African music in proper English

Fela Kuti

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#26. I think that other people covering my work is really exciting ... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form ...

Tori Amos

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#27. We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.

Afrika Bambaataa

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#28. Humans rarely look back to the past, until they have made the same mistake!

Lucinda Riley

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#29. Because the Internet's there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.

King Krule

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#30. In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Fela Kuti

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#31. I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.

Fela Kuti

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#32. To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

Fela Kuti

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#33. It's her privilege to say or think whatever she wants. It's mine to ignore her.

Carolyn Brown

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#34. I refuse to live my life in fear ...

Fela Kuti

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#35. A radical is he who has no sense ... fights without reason ... I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.

Fela Kuti

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#36. 99.9% of the information you get about Africa is wrong

Fela Kuti

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