I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Pop music will never be low brow.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

I write all my sermons.

Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

I can move any crowd.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I probably could have toured off ‚Trilogy‘ for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

All I do is make music.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I’d say probably in the early ’70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, ‚cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.