Quotes About 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. The secret of life is to have no fear.

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#10. At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

William J. Clinton

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

Fela Kuti

#12. You cannot sing African music in proper English

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#16. For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.

Graham Greene

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

Fela Kuti

#18. 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

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#23. 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

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

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

Fela Kuti

#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. Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

Francesca Gregorini

#30. Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Phillips Brooks

#31. Love rekindles lose hope

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. 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