Kanye West famous quotes

My wife has dated broke black dudes.
-- Kanye West

#Wife #Black #Broke

I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.
-- Kanye West

#Responsibility #Decision

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

#Comfort #Growing #Learning And Growing

Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.
-- Kanye West

#Thinking #Trying #Saws

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
-- Kanye West

#Life #Song #Opportunity

A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
-- Kanye West

#Mistake #Ideas #People

Being fresh is more important than having money.
-- Kanye West

#Important

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.
-- Kanye West

#Rapper #Clothes #Important

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

#Humble #Lasts #Be Humble

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

#People #Asking

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

#Pain #Hangover #Drink

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.
-- Kanye West

#Fighting #Hands #Care

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.
-- Kanye West

#Ideas #Flip #Worst

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.
-- Kanye West

#Machines #Like You #Slave

Nothing in life is promised except death.
-- Kanye West

#Song #Life Is

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?
-- Kanye West

#Successful #Order #People

I am not a fan of books.
-- Kanye West

#Book #Fans

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.
-- Kanye West

#Successful #Rapper #Labels

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you
-- Kanye West

#Girl #Taken #Kids

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."
-- Kanye West

#Love You #People #Want

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

#Song #Heart #Sky

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.
-- Kanye West

#Song #Rocks #Giving

Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem.
-- Kanye West

#Bigger

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
-- Kanye West

#People #Stuff #Sides

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

#Nice #Rap #Too Nice

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.
-- Kanye West

#Hate #Love Is #Opposites

I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.
-- Kanye West

#Jobs #Radio #Fast Food

This is my life homie, you decide yours
-- Kanye West

I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.
-- Kanye West

#Jobs #Father #People

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.
-- Kanye West

#Memories #Blessing #Painful

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
-- Kanye West

#Genius #Definitions #Humans

For me giving up is way harder than trying.
-- Kanye West

#Giving Up #Trying #Way

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.
-- Kanye West

#Notebook #Opening Up #Giving

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

#Inspiring #Believe #Inspire

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

#Artist #Trying #Levels

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

#Girlfriend #Stars #Rocks

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

#Band #British #Rhythm

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.
-- Kanye West

#Mistake #Perfect #Not Perfect

Fashion breaks my heart.
-- Kanye West

#Fashion #Heart #Break

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.
-- Kanye West

#Inspirational #Rap #Hip Hop

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.
-- Kanye West

#Home #Chicago #Firsts

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'
-- Kanye West

#Jordan #West #Scream

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am
-- Kanye West

So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
-- Kanye West

#Song #Real #Artist

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

#Inspirational #Voice #This Generation

As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast? Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass? And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it And if you did, then that's family business.
-- Kanye West

#Rap #Moving #Kids

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!
-- Kanye West

#Conceited #Keys #Locks

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

#People #Glitches #Looks

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.
-- Kanye West

#Years #Forever #Facts

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
-- Kanye West

#Pain #Conceited #Able

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name
-- Kanye West

#Song #Games #Names

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.
-- Kanye West

#Leader #Dollars #Answers

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.
-- Kanye West

#Culture #Nucleus

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.
-- Kanye West

#Real #Book #Writing

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

#Men #Perfect #Music Is

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

#Inspirational #Creative #Genius

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.
-- Kanye West

#Ridiculous #Awesomeness #All Time

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

#Flower #Smell #People

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

#Influential #Relevant

I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle
-- Kanye West

#Hate #Water #Next

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

#Pain #Knowing #Bravery

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

#You Re The Best #Surround Yourself #Exception

Success is the best revenge.
-- Kanye West

#Revenge #Best Revenge

I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH
-- Kanye West

#Conceited #Generations #Sparks

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.
-- Kanye West

#Believe #Espresso #Fans

I'm the smartest celebrity you’ve ever dealt with. I’m not Britney Spears.
-- Kanye West

#Spears

Nothing is promised in life except death.
-- Kanye West

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

#Ability

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.
-- Kanye West

#Fashion #Jobs #Mean

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.
-- Kanye West

#Way #Strategy

We gonna touch the sky
-- Kanye West

#Song #Sky

Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.
-- Kanye West

#Motivational #Stars #Fall

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

#Writing #Conceited #Busy

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness
-- Kanye West

#Being Yourself #Believe #Conquer

What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.
-- Kanye West

#Song #Thinking #Trying

Even a broke clock is right twice a day
-- Kanye West

#Broke #Clock

No one man should have all that power.
-- Kanye West

#Men #Should

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.
-- Kanye West

#Lost

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.
-- Kanye West

#Rap #Writing #Ignorance

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

#Painting #Truman Show #Boat

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.
-- Kanye West

#People #Laughing #Serious

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

#Stars #Fall #Clouds

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?
-- Kanye West

#Winning #Franklin