Kanye West Quotes

I don't particularly like photos of myself, though.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

I know I got to be right now Cause I can't get much wronger

I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.

I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.

I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / Still might throw on a little low arm they want me to stop go on gon / They don't want me to shop and me spending that hard / Oh My God is that a Black card / I turned around and replied why yes, but I prefer the term African American Express

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you.

I'm my favorite rapper.

I want to shout out the stars on the walk of fame because they said something about they're not going to put my girl on the Walk of Fame because she's a reality star. It's like, people are so so dated and not modern. There's no way that Kim Kardashian should not have a star on the Walk of Fame. It's ridiculous concepts. I'm just going to give y'all the truth and you're just going to love it.

My wife has dated broke black dudes.

I feed the branches of the people.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.

As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.