Top 100 Kanye West Quotes
#1. Why everything that's supposed to be bad
Make me feel so good?
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#2. I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
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#3. I want to dress like a child as much as possible.
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#4. Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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#5. I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.
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#7. As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.
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#8. That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.
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#9. I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
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#10. We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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#11. I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.
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#12. There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture,
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#13. 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?
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#14. If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS
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#15. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.
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#20. When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.
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#21. I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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#22. It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say
Hey Mama
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#23. Don't Ever fix your lips like collagen
And say something when you gon' end up apologing
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#24. I spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18-years-old on my first pair of Gucci slippers. This was before H&M and Zara, you couldn't just find cool stuff when you were growing up. And to me, I care a lot about cool stuff. It means something to me.
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#25. No one man should have all that power.
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#26. I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.
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#28. I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.
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#29. I'm so gifted at findin' what I don't like the most
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#30. 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.
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#32. I walk through the hotel, and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm f***ing insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through, and one day people will understand everything I ever did.
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#33. I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
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#34. If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.
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#35. Memories have to be our most painful blessing.
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#36. People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f
ing awesome. Actually.
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#37. I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.
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#38. We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.
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#39. Racism is still alive they just be concealing it
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#40. It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.
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#41. If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
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#42. God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
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#43. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.
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#44. I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
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#45. I don't expect to be understood at all.
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#46. People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity - just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.
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#47. We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,
We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,
Things we buy to cover up what's inside.
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#48. I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.
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#49. I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such.
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#50. The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.
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#51. There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want
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#52. Living well eliminates the need for revenge.
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#53. If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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#54. Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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#55. I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.
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#56. Nothing in life is promised except death.
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#57. It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
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#58. They say ya additude determines ya laditude...
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#59. 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.
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#60. I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.
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#61. First rule in this world baby ... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news ...
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#62. My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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#63. It ain't happened yet
And that's what intuition is
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#64. I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!
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#65. We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!
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#66. Even a broke clock is right twice a day
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#67. Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
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#68. Now that you're gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can't be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can't be life
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#69. I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.
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#70. I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
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#71. Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.
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#72. All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has ...
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#73. Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?
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#74. ..my music isn't just music- its medicine.
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#75. Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.
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#76. The plan was,we drink untill the pain is over but whats worse,the pain or the hangover?
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#77. Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis
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#78. You may be talented, but you're not Kanye West.
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#79. Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.
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#80. My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
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#82. I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
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#83. I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.
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#84. Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?
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#86. I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.
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#87. Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?
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#88. They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.
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#89. Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap ... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?
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#90. That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make-he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.
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#91. If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
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#92. Though it's thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs
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#93. I know I got to be right now Cause I can't get much wronger
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#95. If you can do it better than me, then you do it.
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#96. My wife has dated broke black dudes.
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#97. I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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#98. The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.
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#99. Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow,
I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know.
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#100. Believe in your flyness ... conquer your shyness
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