Kanye West Quotes

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.

Fashion breaks my heart.

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. 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.

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.

I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked.

Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.

I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.

Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."

You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.

If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

I feel like me and Taylor [Swift] might still have sex. Why? I made that b - -h famous.