Kanye West Quotes

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

People say, 'What do you mean you want to help the world, but you're so concerned about fashion?' It's illegal to be naked. It is something that is extremely important.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don’t know any personally.

Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?

Racism is still alive they just be concealing it

Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do.

I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately.That's just a warning. To everyone.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Keep rockin', and keep knockin' Whether you Louis Vuitton it up or Reebokin' You see the hate, that they're servin' on a platter So what we gon' have, dessert or disaster?

I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

I sent a girl a picture of my d - k. I don't know what it is with females. But I'm not too good with that s - t.