"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."

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Femi Kuti

#Everyday Quotes #Hours Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”
“The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.”
“I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.”
“Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.”
“When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.”
“I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.”
“Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.”

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“A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.”

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