Top 547 Quotes & Sayings by Kanye West - Page 5

Slavery is more mental than anything

I spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18 years old on my first pair of Gucci slippers, and this was before H&M and Zara. You couldn't just find cool stuff growing up, and for me, I care about cool stuff, it means a lot to me and people like me.

Could have sworn her breastses was sending me messages.

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

Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day.

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

Everything in the world is exactly the same.

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.

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

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

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

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."

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

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

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

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

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

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm [expletive] insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.

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

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

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

Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?

Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

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

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

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.

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

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

I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all."

Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?' She say she only here for her girl birthday... They ordered champagne but still look thirsty, Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30.

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

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 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.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

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

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

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

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 are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

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.

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

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

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