Top 100 Quotes About Kanye
#1. The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating, and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look.
Kim Kardashian
#2. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.
Ian Astbury
#3. I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.
Kanye West
#4. The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."
Akiva Goldsman
#5. 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
#6. I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.
Cyhi The Prynce
#7. There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
J. Cole
#8. Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.
Big Sean
#9. 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.
L.A. Reid
#10. I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.
Rico Love
#11. I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.
Domo Genesis
#12. Kanye West is my favorite artist.
Drake
#13. All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel
Simon De Pury
#14. I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
ASAP Rocky
#15. Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All of them.
Betty Wright
#16. I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.
Theophilus London
#17. My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.
Jess Glynne
#18. Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.
Ellie Goulding
#19. If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical.
Alexis Knapp
#20. The tour bus is always fun, and there's plenty of time to watch movies. Actually, Kanye introduced me to the movie 'Step Brothers.' We were sitting there, watching it and clowning around - it was so funny, man.
Kid Cudi
#21. I love classical. I have a lot of, like, Bach and Mozart and stuff. Then you flip on over, and I've got, like, Kanye West and, you know, just a bunch of - I am very eclectic. I love every sort of music.
Kaley Cuoco
#23. My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
Josh Hartnett
#24. I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.
Jhene Aiko
#25. As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.
Justin Vernon
#26. I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!
Jamie Foxx
#27. Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.
Joe Jonas
#28. For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.
Steve Purdy
#29. Everyone was seated at the table staring at me like I'd just grown a third eye and had demanded they call me Kanye.
Rachel Van Dyken
#30. 'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that 'This Can't Be Life' Kanye beat.'
Kid Cudi
#31. The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.
Rahki
#32. Kanye is the weirdest ... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
T-Pain
#33. I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.
Hoodie Allen
#34. Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Dean Cavanagh
#35. If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.
Kid Cudi
#36. I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.
Rita Ora
#37. I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as I'm getting placements and I'm making good music and able to support myself - I'm good.
Rahki
#38. Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile
except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.
Ian Svenonius
#39. You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.
Kanye West
#40. I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.
Keith Stanfield
#41. When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.
Elton John
#42. What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
Will.i.am
#43. I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
Brie Larson
#44. We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
L.A. Reid
#45. Whatever Kanye tells me, I just try to put it in my little machine and make the perfect solution for it. That's always our collab formula, and that's just how 'Gorgeous' came about.
Kid Cudi
#46. I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.
Yo Gotti
#47. Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
Ian Astbury
#48. I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.
Will Ferrell
#49. I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.
Liam Payne
#50. I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.
Halsey
#51. I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.
Ian Astbury
#52. One of my biggest Achilles' heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there's hope for everyone.
Kanye West
#53. I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
Kacy Hill
#54. Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.
Estelle
#55. 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.'
Kanye West
#56. What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.
Bill Maher
#57. 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
#58. How do I know that Kanye West married a Kardashian? How do I know that Robin Williams died?
Anonymous
#59. I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
Chuck D
#60. Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so whatever he wants to do, I'm with it.
Fetty Wap
#61. Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.
Keke Palmer
#62. The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
Tablo
#63. I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but just to work with a rapper, I don't think is really my thing. I really like songs, like true songs. Like indie songs.
Tiesto
#64. As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.
Big Sean
#65. The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'
Theophilus London
#66. If it was indeed Nebuchadnezzar, it would be a more ostentatious move than even Kanye West could pull off.
Bianca Juarez Olthoff
#67. Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute you put on that Baby Bjorn, there's no turning back. It's like buying a minivan. You lose a little piece of yourself when you get that Baby Bjorn.
Willie Geist
#68. My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.
Soulja Boy
#69. Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.
Big Sean
#70. Niggas can say they pop molly, but do you really? I doubt it. I can't imagine Kanye popping a molly.
Gunplay
#71. People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it" should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it.
Elton John
#72. The Oscars are this Sunday. Host Neil Patrick Harris said he hopes the broadcast will include a 'Kanye moment.' Unfortunately a Kanye moment may not be possible because that would require a black person to be at the Oscars.
Conan O'Brien
#73. I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.
Chris Lilley
#74. My favorite rappers are, I can't really say. I like Kanye because he's so creative. He'll just do anything. I like what Kanye's bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.
Nayvadius Cash
#75. Here's the thing about Donald Trump: he never apologizes; he's never wrong no matter what crazy thing he says. He's the white Kanye.
Bill Maher
#76. I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.
Anna Kendrick
#77. If you're a Kanye West fan, you're not a fan of me, you're a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I'm just the espresso.
Kanye West
#78. As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
B.o.B
#79. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
Q-Tip
#80. It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.
Big Sean
#81. There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
Ahmet Ertegun
#82. Kanye West is what happens when you tell average children they're special. Tap,
S. Elliot Brandis
#83. 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
#84. The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
Jack Antonoff
#85. If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.
Kanye West
#86. It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.
Jon Brion
#87. I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.
Kanye West
#88. People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.
Kanye West
#89. I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
A-Trak
#90. According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a 'jackass.' Not since 'yes, we can' has Obama found a slogan so many Americans can get behind.
Conan O'Brien
#91. The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else.
Nick Cannon
#92. The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.
Kanye West
#93. There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
Adam Mansbach
#94. What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style.
Andrew Dost
#95. Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
Ben Horowitz
#96. You may be talented, but you're not Kanye West.
Kanye West
#97. I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.
David Longstreth
#98. Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?
Big Sean
#99. I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her music. Her music's so soulful ... I think Kanye West is a genius musically.
Tika Sumpter
#100. They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.
Donald Glover
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