Musician Quotes

“If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.”

“I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle.”

“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.”

“I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.”

“People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.”

“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.”

“She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?"I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ballCome and meet me in the bathroom stallAnd show me why you deserve to have it all."”

“But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.”

“Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.”

“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.”

“Let the music defuse all the tension.”

“I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.”

“I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.”

“I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen”

“I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.”

“I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.”

“What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.”

“Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.”

“I still think I am the greatest.”

“I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.”

“Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

“People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.”

“You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'”

“I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.”

“Having money isn't everything, not having it is.”