Quotes by DJ Khaled

“‘They’ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‘They.’”

“A Khaled record is always the best.”

“All my records and videos were groundbreaking.”

“At the end of the day, I pray for the best.”

“Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.”

“Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.”

“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.”

“Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.”

“Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I’m still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.”

“Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It’s a force of luv.”

“For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.”

“I always make my dreams into goals.”

“I can move any crowd.”

“I don’t think I would run for president.”

“I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.”

“I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.”

“I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.”

“I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, ‘Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?’ I was like, ‘I’d rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.’ I always felt like an artist as well.”

“I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.”

“I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.”

“I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.”

“I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.”

“I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.”

“I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.”

“I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.”

“I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.”

“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.”

“I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.”

“I’ve always been a fan of the VMAs, and I’ve always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.”

“I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ’cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.”

“Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.”

“It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.”

“Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.”

“Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.”

“Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.”

“My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.”

“Nicki Minaj, will you marry me?”

“One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.”

“Put it this way: If I asked, ‘How’s business?’ and you say, ‘Boomin’ or ‘Amazing,’ I already know the answer.”

“That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.”

“The new Khaled is enjoying life, man. Because you know what, nobody is going to congratulate you on what you really deserve.”

“To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin’.”

“We can take a ‘It was hard to get there.’ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.”

“What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.”

“When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.”

“When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.”

“You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.”