Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?
Kanye WestMy 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 youโre not even allowed to think that you can do as much. Thatโs a mentality that suppresses humanity.
Kanye WestI remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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