Kanye West quotes:

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.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

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.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

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?'

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Fashion breaks my heart.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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

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

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

"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."

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

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

So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.

Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

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

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

Success is the best revenge.

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

I'm living three dreams: Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's. Cause we can't get along, no resolution? 'Til we drown all these haters... Rest in peace to Whitney Houston

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

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.

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.

My wife has dated broke black dudes.

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

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.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

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 spent two of my checks in telemarketing when I was 18-years-old on my first pair of Gucci slippers. This was before H&M and Zara, you couldn't just find cool stuff when you were growing up. And to me, I care a lot about cool stuff. It means something to me.

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

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

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

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.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing.

I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.

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

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

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.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

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?

I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE.

What happens if a drone falls right next to her?

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

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.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

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?

Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

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

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

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.

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.

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.

I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.

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 had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE...

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

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

All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has...

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war

Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

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

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

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.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

They say your attitude determines your latitude ...

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Keep rockin', and keep knockin' Whether you Louis Vuitton it up or Reebokin' You see the hate, that they're servin' on a platter So what we gon' have, dessert or disaster?

I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such.

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

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

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

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.

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

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

I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead,

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

The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity - just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants!

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

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

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.'

Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

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.