Top 300 Kanye West Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We rappers are role models.”

— Kanye West

102. “What happens if a drone falls right next to her?”

— Kanye West

103. “Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fil-A.”

— Kanye West

104. “Memories have to be our most painful blessing.”

— Kanye West

105. “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you. I’ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”

— Kanye West

106. “People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.”

— Kanye West

107. “If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic...”

— Kanye West

108. “Even a broke clock is right twice a day.”

— Kanye West

109. “Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?”

— Kanye West

110. “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.”

— Kanye West

111. “I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.”

— Kanye West

112. “I can’t be a slave to the machine, you feel like you’re in the matrix.”

— Kanye West

113. “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.”

— Kanye West

114. “I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle.”

— Kanye West

115. “Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.”

— Kanye West

116. “Let the music defuse all the tension.”

— Kanye West

117. “If you talking ’bout classics, do my name get brought up?”

— Kanye West

118. “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

119. “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.”

— Kanye West

120. “An artist’s career doesn’t happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist’s career happens in a lifetime, and if you’re a true artist you’re willing to die for what you believe in.”

— Kanye West

121. “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?”

— Kanye West

122. “I know I got to be right now Cause I can’t get much wronger.”

— Kanye West

123. “The media crucify me like they did Christ.”

— Kanye West

124. “The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”

— Kanye West

125. “The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that’s the way I need Jesus.”

— Kanye West

126. “I don’t expect to be understood at all.”

— Kanye West

127. “I’m like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.”

— Kanye West

128. “Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain’t nothing nobody can do with me.”

— Kanye West

129. “You’ve got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you’re just everyone else.”

— Kanye West

130. “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.”

— Kanye West

131. “Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.”

— Kanye West

132. “Being fresh is more important than having money.”

— Kanye West

133. “You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.”

— Kanye West

134. “Us as a people, we can’t do it on our own. We have to understand that we’re not each other’s enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.”

— Kanye West

135. “Less talk more head right now, huh?”

— Kanye West

136. “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

137. “Rap is the new rock ‘n’ roll. We the real rock stars, and I’m the biggest of all of them. I’m the No. 1 rock star on the planet.”

— Kanye West

138. “Do you think there’d be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn’t for that South Park photo?”

— Kanye West

139. “Living well eliminates the need for revenge.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

141. “Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side.”

— Kanye West

142. “Love is cursed by monogamy.”

— Kanye West

143. “I’m never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It’s something that I’ll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.”

— Kanye West

144. “What’s the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it’s possible.”

— Kanye West

145. “My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.”

— Kanye West

146. “Talkin’, talkin, talkin’, talk. Baby, let’s just knock it off. They don’t know what we been through. They don’t know ’bout me and you.”

— Kanye West

147. “I understand culture. I am the nucleus.”

— Kanye West

148. “Every time I crash the Internet, it’s like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?”

— Kanye West

149. “There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.”

— Kanye West

150. “I’m not interested in things unless they hit me in a certain place in my heart. I get bored really easily. I’m like majorly underwhelmed in general.”

— Kanye West