Kanye West Quotes

“What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing.”

“It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.”

“When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.”

“I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.”

“I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.”

“If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do”

“I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.”

“I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people, this is the level that things could be at. So when you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.”

“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.”

“[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.”

“In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.”

“No one man should have all that power.”

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

“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...”

“Could have sworn her breastses was sending me messages.”

“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.”

“Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.”

“I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.”

“We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education.”

“Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?”

“Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe”

“That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.”

“As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.”

“If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.”

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