Kanye West Quotes

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

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

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

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.

We rappers are role models.

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

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

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

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

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

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

You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude,
... But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

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.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there's no criticism. That means you're too safe

What I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

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

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

Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

I'm not interested in things unless they hit me in a certain place in my heart. I get bored really easily. I'm like majorly underwhelmed in general.

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

I wonder ... would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

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.

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

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

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

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

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

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

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

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

It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say
Hey Mama

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

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

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

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

It seem like everybody dress tight now,
And I just want my credit.

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.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

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

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

I don't have one regret.

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

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

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

I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.

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

They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

My wife has dated broke black dudes.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers
And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

Our work is never over.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

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

My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless
'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless

Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow,
I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

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

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

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

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE ...

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually

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

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

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

I'm my favorite rapper.

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

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.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

Wait 'till I get my money right..

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

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

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

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

If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS

50 is Eminem's favourite rapper ... I'm my favourite rapper.

Slavery is more mental than anything