Top 300 Kanye West Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’ except for two reasons: Sometimes it takes too long to write that and sometimes I spell the word ‘genius’ wrong. The irony.”

— Kanye West

152. “In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.”

— Kanye West

153. “I live and breathe every element in life.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

155. “If it wasn’t for race mixing, there’d be no video girls.”

— Kanye West

156. “I’m a blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish.”

— Kanye West

157. “This dark diction has become America’s addiction.”

— Kanye West

158. “People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it’s f – ing awesome. Actually.”

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159. “I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body.”

— Kanye West

160. “I still think I am the greatest.”

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161. “I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: ‘This is the level that things could be at.’”

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162. “Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.”

— Kanye West

163. “My wife has dated broke black dudes.”

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164. “I don’t have one regret.”

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165. “No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day...”

— Kanye West

166. “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.’”

— Kanye West

167. “I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.”

— Kanye West

168. “Could have sworn her breastses was sending me messages.”

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

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170. “Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.”

— Kanye West

171. “We culture. Rap is the new rock ’n roll. We the rockstars. It’s been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

173. “I’m not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.”

— Kanye West

174. “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.”

— Kanye West

175. “You have the power to let power go.”

— Kanye West

176. “Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz.”

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177. “If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do.”

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178. “Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I’m not having a good time.”

— Kanye West

179. “I’m a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That’s why I’m instrumental, vibrations is what I’m into.”

— Kanye West

180. “Racism is still alive they just be concealing it.”

— Kanye West

181. “Nike told me, ‘We can’t give you royalties because you’re not a professional athlete.’ I told them ‘I’ll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.’ I’m a performance athlete!”

— Kanye West

182. “Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.”

— Kanye West

183. “If y’all fresh to death, then I’m deceased.”

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184. “I know you can’t control everything, and everything is in God’s hands ultimately, but I’m going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don’t care.”

— Kanye West

185. “They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they’d call me Mr. Glass?”

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186. “Any woman that you’re in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It’s actually easier to focus, in some ways.”

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187. “Take your diamonds and throw em up like you’re bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.”

— Kanye West

188. “When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn’t afford them.”

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

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190. “There’s a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want.”

— Kanye West

191. “My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.”

— Kanye West

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

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193. “I’m a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.”

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194. “I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.”

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195. “Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe.”

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196. “I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.”

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197. “And wouldn’t change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name.”

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198. “So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.”

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199. “I just close my eyes and act like I’m a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.”

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

— Kanye West