African Quote by Fela Kuti Download Open image “I'm playing deep African music.” — Fela Kuti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare African African music Deep Music Playing
My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child. — Jain Copy Share Image
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm feeling an African type of way so I want to be listening to Afrobeat or, another day, I'll be thinking I want… — Callum Hudson-Odoi Copy Share Image
Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Sometimes I listen to rap music, sometimes reggeaton sometimes African music. Really depends on the mood that I'm in. — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I would never run away from my country. Even at the point of death, I doubt I would move out, because what is the… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
My mother was the most wicked mother ever seen in life when it came to beating. Oh-la-la! Every time I would say, 'This is… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things - the judiciary, sports, economics and trade - we want Africanism to be involved,… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I've suffered quite a lot, to the point where I've experienced death. Years before I wasn't fit to die, but I understand life better… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African… — Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Copy Share Image
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
