Kanye West Quotes
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251. “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

252. “You have to be able to swim in backlash.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

254. “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.”

— Kanye West

255. “I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

257. “I’ve got a million people telling me why I can’t do it. You know, that I’m not a real designer, that I’m not this. I’m not a real rapper, either!”

— Kanye West

258. “I’m gonna sit here on this runway until I’m at the end of it. Because that’s that thing that people slave over. That’s that thing that people are slaves to. That’s that thing that I’m a slave to.”

— Kanye West

259. “We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

262. “But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.”

— Kanye West

263. “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.”

— Kanye West

264. “If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.”

— Kanye West

265. “It’s like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine’s credibility. And that’s real.”

— Kanye West

266. “We’ve been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.”

— Kanye West

267. “I’m gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that I’m gonna be bigger than Wal-Mart.”

— Kanye West

268. “I could still do a suit, I just wouldn’t have done that exact lapel situation.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

270. “They classify my motivational speeches as rants!”

— Kanye West

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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.”

— Kanye West

274. “Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.”

— Kanye West

275. “I’ve had meetings where a guy actually told me, “What we’re trying to figure out is how we can control you.” In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?”

— Kanye West

276. “I don’t like to say something’s weird when it’s innovative and fresh.”

— Kanye West

277. “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?”

— Kanye West

278. “If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.”

— Kanye West

279. “Pharrell has always been my style idol.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

281. “I don’t have one regret.”

— Kanye West

282. “I gotta new strategy it’s called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.”

— Kanye West

283. “It’s about whatever I want to make it about. It’s my world.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

285. “Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing...”

— Kanye West

286. “I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, “We love you, we want to sign you,” and then there’d always be one person who’d say, “He’s just a producer.””

— Kanye West

287. “You want me to be great, but you don’t ever want me to say I’m great?”

— Kanye West

288. “I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?”

— Kanye West

289. “A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there’s also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.”

— Kanye West

290. “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

291. “Like, this is my baby. This isn’t America’s baby.”

— Kanye West

292. “I’m the smartest celebrity you’ve ever dealt with. I’m not Britney Spears.”

— Kanye West

293. “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.”

— Kanye West

294. “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.”

— Kanye West

295. “That’s very cool. Well, that’s great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I’m catering to him. The fact that I make what I make-he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that’s the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That’s the fun.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

297. “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.”

— Kanye West

298. “I wouldn’t even say that I’m a rapper. I’d say I’m more of a messenger.”

— Kanye West

299. “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

300. “Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.”

— Kanye West