Best 397 quotes of Kanye West on MyQuotes

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.

Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.

I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.

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.

I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

I am a black new wave artist.

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

I am not a fan of books.

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

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

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

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked.

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.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately.That's just a warning. To everyone.

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

I can sleep. I love sleep; it's my favorite.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

I don't like walking around with people thinking I'm doing uncool s--, because there's nothing I'm doing that's uncool. It's all innovative. You just might not understand it yet. But it's cool. Family is super cool. Going home to one girl every night is super cool. Just going home and getting on the floor and playing with your child is super cool. Not wearing a red leather jacket, and just looking like a dad and s--, is like super cool. Having someone that I can call Mom again. That s-- is super cool.

I don't understand why they trippin', If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly.

I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad.

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

I feed the branches of the people.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.

I feel like me and Taylor [Swift] might still have sex. Why? I made that b - -h famous.

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

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.

If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.

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

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.