"Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you...." - Quote by Kanye West

“An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in.”

“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!”

“Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company.”

“It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!”

“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.”

“It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

“Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.”

“I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.”

“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”