73 Quotes by Jidenna

I think one of the things that I picked up from Nigeria is the constant pressure to be excellent. Parents drill in this responsibility towards family, but also a responsibility toward making sure your family name is heralded.

Everything you touch touches you.

California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.

The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn't just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that's what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that's what people need around the world.

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.

Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?

I'm the guy on the corner that is slightly peculiar but fun and funky.

There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.