Quotes by Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti

Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

Country

Democracy

Vote

Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Culture

People

Slavery

I believe in the Creator. I don’t believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

Believe

Dog

I Believe

I don’t smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won’t smoke again. Probably I will when I’m 60.

Drink

I don’t understand, who is God. I don’t understand God. But to simplify that, I will say I believe in creation. They say God is the Supreme Being. I don’t believe so. I don’t believe God created us in his image. I believe we are too small to understand totally the cosmic wonder of the universe.

Believe

Creation

Wonder

I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Everyday

Hours

Teach

I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

Father

People

Trying

I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.

Arrogant

Taken

Thinking

I think this my last album – No Place For My Dream – truly is my best work. My fear now is, I don’t know if I can do better than this in my lifetime, because technically, sound quality, composition, the melody is really high standard, it’s very scary; the way it was recorded, the way I was focused. I think it is top of the music scene.

Dream

Scary

Thinking

I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

My Family

Our Family

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Arrogant

Believe

Bored

Children

Corruption

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Creation

Culture

Democracy

Dog

Dream

Drink

Everyday

Eye

Father

Fighting

Girl

Good Things

Hours

Humble

I Believe

Imagine

Kind

Leader

Legacy

Long

Mistake

My Family

Our Family

Past

People

Religious

Scary

School

Slavery

Spiritual

Spirituality

Taken

Teach

Thinking

Today

Trying

Vote

Wonder

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Quotes by Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti

Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

I believe in the Creator. I don’t believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

I don’t smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won’t smoke again. Probably I will when I’m 60.

I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.

I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

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