Top 300 Kanye West Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Success is the best revenge.”

— Kanye West

2. “Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

— Kanye West

3. “Everyone’s always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?”

— Kanye West

4. “Everything I’m not makes me everything I am.”

— Kanye West

5. “Love your haters – they’re your biggest fans.”

— Kanye West

6. “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

7. “For me giving up is way harder than trying.”

— Kanye West

8. “We gonna touch the sky.”

— Kanye West

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9. “Nothing in life is promised except death.”

— Kanye West

10. “Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.”

— Kanye West

11. “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.”

— Kanye West

12. “That that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger.”

— Kanye West

13. “Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.”

— Kanye West

14. “I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.”

— Kanye West

15. “If you know you’re the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS.”

— Kanye West

16. “The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?”

— Kanye West

17. “I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.”

— Kanye West

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18. “Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe.”

— Kanye West

19. “No one man should have all that power.”

— Kanye West

20. “I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.”

— Kanye West

21. “If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”

— Kanye West

22. “Everything in the world is exactly the same.”

— Kanye West

23. “They say your attitude determines your latitude...”

— Kanye West

24. “This is my life homie, you decide yours.”

— Kanye West

25. “50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let ’em hate, watch the money pile up.”

— Kanye West

26. “For me to say I wasn’t a genius I’d just be lying to you and to myself.”

— Kanye West

27. “Wait ’till I get my money right...”

— Kanye West

28. “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

— Kanye West

29. “Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.”

— Kanye West

30. “Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don’t care.”

— Kanye West

31. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome.”

— Kanye West

32. “You’re not perfect, but you’re not your mistakes.”

— Kanye West

33. “My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!”

— Kanye West

34. “I’m typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!”

— Kanye West

35. “I’m on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

37. “Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.”

— Kanye West

38. “If I don’t win, the award show loses credibility.”

— Kanye West

39. “We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.”

— Kanye West

40. “Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.”

— Kanye West

41. “If you’re taught you can’t do anything you won’t do anything, I was taught I could do everything.”

— Kanye West

42. “Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”

— Kanye West

43. “Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.”

— Kanye West

44. “My attitude is tattooed that means it’s permanent.”

— Kanye West

45. “I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.”

— Kanye West

46. “I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.”

— Kanye West

47. “I guess every superhero need his theme music.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

49. “If you fall on concrete, that’s yo ass fault.”

— Kanye West

50. “Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?”

— Kanye West