Kanye West Quotes

“Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?”

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

“For me giving up is way harder than trying.”

“I never seen snakes on a plane”

“I don't have one regret.”

“Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.”

“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.”

“I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I know I'm the most influential.”

“Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.”

“I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.”

“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.”

“It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.”

“The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?”

“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.”

“I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid.I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.”

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

“Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.”

“My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent”

“Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz”