Kanye West Quotes

If you’re taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis

That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make - he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight….You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

I've been outta my mind a long time.

What happens if a drone falls right next to her?

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

I never seen snakes on a plane

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

My favorite body part of Kim's: heart.

It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, "Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together." And there are so many images of things that it's almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount you're seeing and carry it into one language.

Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

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.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

I don't expect to be understood at all.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

I want to dress like a child as much as possible.

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.

We gonna touch the sky.

It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

People don't stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.