Kanye West Song Quotes

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

Akiva Goldsman

#2. In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Kanye West

#3. Why do you think there's only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell? Because it's a lot easier to slide down then climb up, and it takes a whole lot less energy to boot.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?

Kanye West

#5. And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

Kanye West

#6. I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.
-Sebastian St. Vincent

Lisa Kleypas

#7. 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.

Kanye West

#8. 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

Kanye West

#9. I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Frank Herbert

#10. What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

Arthur Eddington

#11. The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger.

Hilda M. Ransome

#12. Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.

Kanye West

#13. 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.

Kanye West

#14. Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#15. Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first,

Ray Allen

#16. 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

Kanye West

#17. I wanted to be your partner the first day.

Stephanie Perkins

#18. There are roughly 1,200 dogs trained to detect bombs and bomb making materials in the US - and over 40,000 trained to detect marijuana. Some of the bomb-dogs are also cross trained as drug-dogs which accounts for their ability to sleep well at night.

T. Rafael Cimino

#19. 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.

Kanye West

#20. 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.

Kanye West

#21. My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Kanye West

#22. If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

Kanye West

#23. Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson,
Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.

Kanye West

#24. I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!

Kanye West

#25. I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

Bart Chilton

#26. I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

Aidan Gillen

#27. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

Arthur Miller

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

Kanye West

#29. Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

Francis Schaeffer

#30. 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.

Kanye West

#31. We gonna touch the sky

Kanye West

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

Kanye West