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

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

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.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

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

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Change in all things is sweet.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I’m not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I’m passionate about. I’m finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, ’90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I’m very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it’s received well, and it has been so far.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

The status quo sucks.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

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.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.