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Davido
28 quotes
“We rise by lifting others.”
“If you can't be a King, build a King.”
Davido (born 1992) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Davido on 5ive, grief, and global ambition, Music In Africa (30 Apr 2025)
“No co-sign, built from the ground up! Just God, good music and the best fans! I Appreciate you guys fr [for real]!”
“Never imagined it here. Forget it. I’ll be lying to you. Never imagined it. So when things were just happening over time, we were just taking in the strides like, “Damn, this is getting lit.” We sold out 1,000. We sold out 2,000. Damn, we sold out 30, 40… Yeah, so it’s never really… I feel like every successful person that attains a great level of success can’t explain the feeling. You know what I’m saying?”
“Throwing stones, but u dey live for glass house!”
“I think just generally in life when good things are happening so quick, you don’t realise.”
“https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/interview-davido-5ive-grief-and-global-ambition”
“Until there’s transparency, then I can go ahead with politics because nobody can beat me in any election. If there’s a free and fair election, let everybody come out to vote, I will win. But because of the system, there’s no transparency; they write the results.”
“I want to see what they are going to do in Osun. We are waiting.”
“I’ll tag Trump, I’ll call Trump, everybody. If they still don’t see anything, I’ll go in front of the White House and say, ‘Help us.’”
“Leave Osun alone oo, Leave it.”
“Trump will just say, ‘I think there’s a Nigerian artiste sending me a message. Don’t worry, my message will be delivered.’”
“[https://guardian.ng/news/osun-poll-ill-involve-trump-if-anything-goes-wrong-davido-warnsosun-poll-ill-involve-trump-if-anything-goes-wrong-davido-”
“Everybody is there to contribute to the brand, not just sitting around. I do have friends that can come around and enjoy with me, but when it’s time to work, we’ve got to get to it,”
“Go and find a trade that you think can help the brand. If it’s a camera, you can carry it. If it’s editing, you can edit. If it’s content, you can think creatively and contribute something.”
“By the time I dropped my first song, Dami Duro, I was like 17 going on 18. That’s such a crazy throwback. Before I blew, already in my head, I thought I was already blown.”
“Now I live with the kids and my wife. I can’t have a hundred people in my house like before. Normally, recording in the studio is like a party vibe, but with this record, because of my situation, I can’t have a hundred people at the crib.”
“That was my mentality at the time. I over-believed. I was really delusional; I over-believed myself.”
“I’ve been so blessed to be able to last 15 years, and not only lasting 15 years, still being happy to do what I do, still being excited to get on stage, still being excited to get in the studio and create”
“It was harder for me because everybody knew that I had a back,”
“Which other billionaire’s child do you know in the world? I’m not talking about Africa, in the world and that has made a name for himself and also made a lot of money? You can’t name one apart from me.”
“If I weren’t doing music today, I’d probably be a label owner or own a media house because I’ve always loved entertainment. Even if I were working in my dad’s office, I could see myself having a side business of a music label just because I love music.”
“I want to get into movies. I want to start acting soon. I have invested in two movies already as an executive producer. I also have a documentary coming. It is very, very big. And yeah, I do want to act at some point in the future”
“Lati used to work for my mum. My mum passed, you know, Lati used to work for my mum. So when my mum passed, you know, Lati stayed around. And then when my mum passed, my step mum came, chased Lati away from the house”
“That time, my Lati, he was the youngest staff in the whole house. So we could relate.”
“Lati would sneak me in his car, go to the studio, sneak me in his car. He used to do music, he used to do music and DJ. So then he would carry me to the studio.”
“We didn’t see each other for like, probably from when I was like 12, 13 years old. And I came back when I was like 14 years old for December. And now, I went to meet Lati where he was.”
“I told Lati, I was like, man, Lati, I’m doing music too now. Full time. Don’t worry. I’ll blow. When I blow, I’ll come and get you. We’re going to travel the world together.”