Kanye West Quotes - Page 9

The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--t. But His energy and His love and what He wants us to have as people and the way He wants us to love each other, that is infectious. Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.

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?

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

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

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all."

What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

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. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm [expletive] insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.

I am not a fan of books.

People say, 'What do you mean you want to help the world, but you're so concerned about fashion?' It's illegal to be naked. It is something that is extremely important.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?

Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis

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?