Kanye West Quotes

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has.

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up.

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

I just had a responsibility to [Taylor Swift] as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.

An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

Everything in the world is exactly the same.

People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such.

I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.

The media crucify me like they did Christ.

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

It's illegal to be naked.