Quotes About Akon

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Afrika Bambaataa

#4. 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

#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. A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.

Cynthia Bourgeault

#7. Son, different rules apply during the End of the World. I did not know what to say to that.

John C. Wright

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Richard Rorty

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Akon

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

Akon

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

Akon

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

Akon

#17. I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Francesca Annis

#18. 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

#19. When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Michael Douglas

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Akon

#23. It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#24. 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

#25. Eminem is the greatest, ever.

Akon

#26. 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

#27. God hid the whole world in thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. I love Demi Lovato's style. It's really different, but it's super chic and has a cool edge to it. I'm always trying to channel her style when going shopping for new clothes or getting dressed in the morning.

Kelli Berglund

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

Akon

#30. Everything is a blessing to me.

Akon

#31. I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

Bob Hope

#35. 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

#36. I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

Robert Green Ingersoll