Akon's Quotes

#1. Slowly, elaborately, Akon's head dropped to the table with a dull thud. Why couldn't we have been alone in the universe?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. The first two songs that I wrote, produced and demoed with my voice on it was that song and then Akon's "Sorry, Blame It On Me." The first two demos I ever wrote and demoed, the two biggest artists at the time took them.

Bryce Wilson

#3. As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Akon

#4. Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Akon

#5. I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Akon

#6. It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Akon

#7. Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akon

#8. Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

#9. I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Akon

#10. While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.

Akon

#11. I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

Afrika Bambaataa

#12. My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Akon

#13. The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts

Akon

#14. Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything

Akon

#15. I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Akon

#16. Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.

Louisa May Alcott

#17. I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Akon

#18. In Africa ... age is not important over there. They don't care.

Akon

#19. There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be
done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

Peter Drucker

#20. The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Akon

#21. I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

Sean Combs

#22. Eminem is the greatest, ever.

Akon

#23. I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

Kate Winslet

#24. What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.

Akon

#25. When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music,

Akon

#26. Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

Rachel Van Dyken

#27. I was never officially signed with Akon, but it was a shopping deal. That was around the time he was going through some problems with his label at Interscope. I waited, but when a deal didn't happen, I just went out on my own.

French Montana

#28. Everything is a blessing to me.

Akon

#29. I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Akon

#30. I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

Akon

#31. That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Akon

#32. Your prayer life is the foundation of your relationship with Christ.

Jim George

#33. Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.

Suzanne Young