Quotes About Fela Kuti

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

Solange Knowles

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Fela Kuti

#7. 99.9% of the information you get about Africa is wrong

Fela Kuti

#8. We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners.

Lloyd Blankfein

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

Fela Kuti

#10. The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

John Lennon

#11. Achieving success is hard; staying successful is even harder.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. I had wanted all of her just a moment ago, to consume her and to have her consume me in turn, and when we were fucking, sometimes it felt as if it would never be enough, as if I could never fuck hard enough to get as close as I needed.

Sierra Simone

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

Fela Kuti

#14. You cannot sing African music in proper English

Fela Kuti

#15. If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.

Richard Bach

#16. I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Frances O'Grady

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#20. Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.

Alan Titchmarsh

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

Fela Kuti

#22. The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

H.L. Mencken

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you

Bill Belichick

#27. We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now?

Mitch Albom

#28. 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

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

Fela Kuti

#30. He'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

Gregory David Roberts

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#34. Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

#35. 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

#36. People will often do imponderable things because of how they feel, not because of what they think.

Raymond E. Feist

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#41. You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Jane Austen