Best Kanye West Quotes

#1. People don't stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.

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#2. 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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#3. Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

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#4. So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

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#8. Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.

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#9. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

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#10. I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

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#11. The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

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#12. I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

Rico Love

#13. Nothing is promised in life except death.

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#14. Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

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#15. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

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#18. 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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#19. What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

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#20. Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it'll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that's when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

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#21. Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Dan Hill

#22. All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.

Domo Genesis

#23. I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

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#24. People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

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#25. People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

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#26. I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

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#27. Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

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#28. I've obliterated three days trying to come up with an elegant way to write what I'm about to write, but I think the least elegant way is probably best: I like Kanye West.

Chuck Klosterman

#29. If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I'm about to do

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#30. 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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#31. I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'

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#32. Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh?
I put the pussy in a sarcophagus

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#33. [I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

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#34. I want to dress like a child as much as possible.

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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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#37. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

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#38. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

Ian Astbury

#39. 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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#40. We gonna touch the sky

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#41. The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

Akiva Goldsman

#42. I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

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#43. Why everything that's supposed to be bad
Make me feel so good?

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#44. I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

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#45. I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that's how good I was. But I wasn't on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they're all the same as that coach.

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#46. If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.

Donald Glover

#47. So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.

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#48. "Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."

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#49. 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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#50. That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

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#51. And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

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#52. I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless
'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless

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#53. I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

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#54. 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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#55. I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

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#56. 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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