Kanye West Quotes

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?

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

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

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

If you have power, you have to empower.

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

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’.

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

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

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

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

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.'

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

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

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

Wait 'till I get my money right.

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

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

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

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

Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing.

Don't Ever fix your lips like collagen And say something when you gon' end up apologing

Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

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

No one man should have all that power.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye, Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye...

Pharrell has always been my style idol.

I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'