Kanye West Quotes

I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity. ~ Kanye West

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.' ~ Kanye West

Oh am I late? No, I already graduated
And you can live through anything if Magic made it
They say I talk with so much emphasis
Ooh they so sensitive ~ Kanye West

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

I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped ... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something. ~ Kanye West

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

I don't expect to be understood at all. ~ Kanye West

I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect. ~ Kanye West

I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry. ~ Halsey

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

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side. ~ Kanye West

We gonna touch the sky ~ Kanye West

Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time? ~ Kanye West

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

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

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

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them. ~ Kanye West

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. ~ Kanye West

I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do. ~ Kanye West

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine. ~ Kanye West

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! ~ Kanye West

Pharrell has always been my style idol. ~ Kanye West

Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus ~ Kanye West

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

you cut me deep bitch,cut me like surgery. ~ Kanye West

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

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? ~ Kanye West

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!' ~ Kanye West

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

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. ~ Kanye West

I'm living three dreams:
Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's.
Cause we can't get along, no resolution?
'Til we drown all these haters ...
Rest in peace to Whitney Houston ~ Kanye West

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

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible. ~ Kanye West

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

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love. ~ Kanye West

Man ... ninjas are kind of cool ... I just don't know any personally. ~ Kanye West

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. ~ Kanye West

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

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

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

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

My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent ~ Kanye West

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right? ~ Kanye West

This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One. ~ Kanye West

Got staples on my dick. Why? Fucking centerfolds. ~ Kanye West

I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist. ~ Ian Astbury

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

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea
a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed. ~ David Letterman

I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy ... what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids. ~ Kanye West

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. ~ Steve Purdy

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

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason. ~ Kanye West

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression. ~ Kanye West

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome. ~ Joe Jonas

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh. ~ Kanye West

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

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing We're constantly making mistakes. We're constantly trying to express ourselves and actualize our dreams. ~ Kanye West

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

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

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to. ~ Kanye West

I HEARD YOU LIKE TO DO IT WITH THE LIGHTS ON. BUT I REALLY MAKE BABIES WHEN THE MIC'S ON. ~ Kanye West

George Bush doesn't care about black people. ~ Kanye West

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

Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.

And the media from day one, from when you were little ass kids, they teach you not to love yourself. They take something out of you and they try to sell it back to you...Something that you've been fighting for your entire life that's taken from you as a child. That you always had inside of you. That's self-love.

That's why I love you so much, cause as everybody knows, I love me so much. ~ Kanye West

I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach. ~ Kanye West

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

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like. ~ Jhene Aiko

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

Nothing is promised in life except death. ~ Kanye West

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. ~ Kanye West

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. ~ Kanye West

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture, ~ Kanye West

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West. ~ Fefe Dobson

Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back. ~ Kanye West

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body. ~ Kanye West

When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio. ~ Elton John

Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on. ~ Kanye West

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

I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through. ~ Kanye West

I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE. ~ Kanye West

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls. ~ Kanye West

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

Only One

[Intro]
As I lay me down to sleep
I hear her speak to me

[Verse 1]
Hello 'Mari, how ya doin'?
I think the storm ran out of rain, the clouds are moving
I know you're happy, cause I can see it
So tell the voice inside ya' head to believe it
I talked to God about you, he said he sent you an angel
And look at all that he gave you
You asked for one and you got two
You know I never left you
Cause every road that leads to heaven's right inside you
So I can say

[Hook 1]
Hello my only one, just like the morning sun
You'll keep on rising till the sky knows your name
Hello my only one, remember who you are
No you're not perfect but you're not your mistakes

[Verse 2]
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Oh the good outweighs the bad even on your worst day
Remember how I'd say
Hey hey one day you'll be the man you always knew you could be
And if you knew how proud I was
You'd never shed a tear, have a fear, no you wouldn't do that
And though I didn't pick the day to turn the page
I know it's not the end every time I see her face, and I hear you say

[Hook 2]
Hello my only one, remember who you are
You got the world cause you got love in your hands
And you're still my chosen one
So can you understand? One day you'll understand

[Bridge]
So hear me out, hear me out
I won't go, I won't goKanye West