Kanye West Quotes

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

I go all the way back to the Hot Boys days and being 13, listening to this dude. Just remembering the staple he put on the game back then all the way to now, to have that longevity years beyond it. So for him to actually acknowledge what I'm doing right now and seeing it as a path, the same way the longevity he created, it's a great feeling to actually share that same stage and a moment with him. Wayne ain't no new jack to this game. He influenced a lot of styles and a lot of sounds. I would say I was influenced by a recent sound and flow, and cadence that he brung to the game.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

I know I'm the most influential.

Success is the best revenge.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.

I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad.

"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.