Quotes About Kanye West

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

Ian Astbury

#2. I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

Kanye West

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

Akiva Goldsman

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Rico Love

#7. Kanye West is my favorite artist.

Drake

#8. All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

Simon De Pury

#9. 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

#10. My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Josh Hartnett

#11. 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

#12. As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.

Justin Vernon

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

Steve Purdy

#16. I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

Hoodie Allen

#17. Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Dean Cavanagh

#18. 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

#19. You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.

Kanye West

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.

Ian Astbury

#28. 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

#29. Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

Estelle

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. How do I know that Kanye West married a Kardashian? How do I know that Robin Williams died?

Anonymous

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. If it was indeed Nebuchadnezzar, it would be a more ostentatious move than even Kanye West could pull off.

Bianca Juarez Olthoff

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.

Anna Kendrick

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Kanye West is what happens when you tell average children they're special. Tap,

S. Elliot Brandis

#46. 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

#47. If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.

Kanye West

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. You may be talented, but you're not Kanye West.

Kanye West

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

Fefe Dobson

#56. There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Kanye West

#57. So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.

Audie Cornish

#58. With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.

Talib Kweli

#59. It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.

Big Sean

#60. Kim Kardashian is saddled with a huge arse but enough about Kanye West.

Stewart Francis

#61. People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

Bernie Mac

#62. I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

Big Sean

#63. 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

#64. You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea
a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

David Letterman

#65. I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

Estelle

#66. What was he doing in there? Was he just getting dressed reeeaaally slowly? Was he looking through my things? Was he trashing my place because I'd run out and left him there like the biggest jerk this side of Kanye West at the 2009 VMA's?

Cora Carmack

#67. There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.

Tinie Tempah

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

Kanye West

#69. 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.

Kanye West

#70. 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!'

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

#74. 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.

Kanye West

#75. Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

#77. We gonna touch the sky

Kanye West

#78. 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.

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

#81. 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.

Kanye West

#82. 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

#83. "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."

Kanye West

#84. 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.

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

#86. 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.

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

#89. We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

Kanye West

#90. 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.

Kanye West

#91. 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.

Kanye West

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

Kanye West

#93. There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture,

Kanye West

#94. 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.

Kanye West

#95. 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.

Kanye West

#96. 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?

Kanye West

#97. If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS

Kanye West

#98. 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.

Kanye West

#99. 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.

Kanye West

#100. 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.

Kanye West