Top 300 Kanye West Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 5 of 7

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

— Kanye West

202. “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.”

— Kanye West

203. “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.”

— Kanye West

204. “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.”

— Kanye West

205. “People say I’ve got a bad reputation. I think I’ve got the best reputation in the building.”

— Kanye West

206. “Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?”

— Kanye West

207. “I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.”

— Kanye West

208. “I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.”

— Kanye West

209. “The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?”

— Kanye West

210. “Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!”

— Kanye West

211. “Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?”

— Kanye West

212. “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.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

214. “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.”

— Kanye West

215. “I’m not a corny-ass booty freak! I’m the greatest musician of all-time.”

— Kanye West

216. “I hope we don’t see no paparazzi today. Because I’m still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, ‘That’s not my statement!’”

— Kanye West

217. “People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.”

— Kanye West

218. “I’m talkin’ about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I’m talking about us, you know? ‘Cause I’m a slave to it. I love it.”

— Kanye West

219. “As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.”

— Kanye West

220. “The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?”

— Kanye West

221. “My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it’s a person that just allows God to work through them.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

223. “When someone comes up and says something like, ‘I am a god,’ everybody says ‘Who does he think he is?’ I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That’s who I think I am.”

— Kanye West

224. “People don’t stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.”

— Kanye West

225. “I feed the branches of the people.”

— Kanye West

226. “I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.”

— Kanye West

227. “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?”

— Kanye West

228. “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.”

— Kanye West

229. “Nobody’s gonna be bigger than Eminem.”

— Kanye West

230. “I’m my favorite rapper.”

— Kanye West

231. “Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.”

— Kanye West

232. “There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between “Graduation” and “808s,” and were able to become more successful at it.”

— Kanye West

233. “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.”

— Kanye West

234. “Now that you’re gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can’t be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can’t be life.”

— Kanye West

235. “I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.”

— Kanye West

236. “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.”

— Kanye West

237. “If you a Kanye West fan, you a fan of yourself.”

— Kanye West

238. “Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.”

— Kanye West

239. “I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it’s illegal to be naked.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

242. “Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.”

— Kanye West

243. “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.”

— Kanye West

244. “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.”

— Kanye West

245. “Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of ‘hip-hop,’ I think, is ‘gay.’ Like yo, you play a record and if it’s wack, ‘That’s gay, dog!’ And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, ‘Yo, stop it, fam.’”

— Kanye West

246. “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.”

— Kanye West

247. “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.”

— Kanye West

248. “I’m really happy I’m me because if I wasn’t I’d be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.”

— Kanye West

249. “Anytime I’ve had a big thing that’s ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn’t have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.”

— Kanye West

250. “People say, ‘What do you mean you want to help the world, but you’re so concerned about fashion?’ It’s illegal to be naked. It is something that is extremely important.”

— Kanye West