Top 547 Quotes & Sayings by Kanye West - Page 9

I know I'm the most influential.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

I am a black new wave artist.

I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe i'm not actually a huge douche...

I feel like me and Taylor [Swift] might still have sex. Why? I made that b - -h famous.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I also like to take words that have negative connotations and show their real meaning.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

The media crucify me like they did Christ.

I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.”

The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

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

I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

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!

Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.

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

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

Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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

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

I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

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.

I go all the way back to the Hot Boys days and being 13, listening to this dude. Just remembering the staple he put on the game back then all the way to now, to have that longevity years beyond it. So for him to actually acknowledge what I'm doing right now and seeing it as a path, the same way the longevity he created, it's a great feeling to actually share that same stage and a moment with him. Wayne ain't no new jack to this game. He influenced a lot of styles and a lot of sounds. I would say I was influenced by a recent sound and flow, and cadence that he brung to the game.

I feed the branches of the people.

Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

You ain't never seen nothing crazier than this n - -a when he off his Lexapro.

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.

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

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.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

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

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.

You have the power to let power go

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

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

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

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

I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.

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.

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

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

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.

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

I'm my favorite rapper.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

I've been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.

I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight….You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.