Kanye West Quotes

“But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.”

“I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.”

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

“..my music isn't just music- its medicine.”

“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’.”

“Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you.”

“Slavery is more mental than anything”

“It's illegal to be naked.”

“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

“I feed the branches of the people.”

“It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.”

“The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.”

“Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.”

“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'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.”

“All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.”

“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 not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.”

“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.”

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

“I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.”

“There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.”

“It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.”

“My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!”

“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.”