Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

Nature has always had more force than education.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

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?‘

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I need to know how many records I’ve sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we’re gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

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

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I’d become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

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

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

All I do is make music.