Kanye West Quotes

It's crazy that we live in a world where if your super positive and super creative...it's scary. Because what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if your scared of like...positivity.

My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent

Starting now, you're just starting to see a glimmer of what the idea of West will mean. So right now, at this age and with this visibility and with the skill sets that Kim is now giving me, I think I have a good chance of success in building something that has longevity, high integrity, high success rate, and is very fulfilling, not only for me creatively but also in adding fulfillment to people's lives. Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding magic.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.

I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying.

I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.

As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

What I talked about in it was the idea of celebrity, and celebrities being treated like blacks were in the '60s, having no rights, and the fact that people can slander your name. I said that in the toast. And I had to say this in a position where I, from the art world, am marrying Kim. And how we're going to fight to raise the respect level for celebrities so that my daughter can live a more normal life. She didn't choose to be a celebrity. But she is. So I'm going to fight to make sure she has a better life.

I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.

Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me.

First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news.

I can sleep. I love sleep; it's my favorite.

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.

I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle.

People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.

I am a black new wave artist.

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I'm feelin' let it shine / I'm feelin' take y'all back to them better times/ I'm feelin' talk about my mama if y'all don't mind

You ain't never seen nothing crazier than this n - -a when he off his Lexapro.

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

If you have power, you have to empower.

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.

Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.