Top 300 Kanye West Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success.”

— Kanye West

252. “Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?”

— Kanye West

253. “So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I’m a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.”

— Kanye West

254. “I’m not a celebrity, I’m an activist. The fact that when I see truth it’s really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.”

— Kanye West

255. “The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, ‘How does creativity apply across the board?’”

— Kanye West

256. “Fashion breaks my heart.”

— Kanye West

257. “We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

259. “I am a black new wave artist.”

— Kanye West

260. “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

261. “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

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

— Kanye West

263. “I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

265. “Slavery is more mental than anything.”

— Kanye West

266. “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

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

272. “I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.”

— Kanye West

273. “I’m supposed to be a musical genius, but I can’t work the car seat that well.”

— Kanye West

274. “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

275. “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

276. “Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.”

— Kanye West

277. “I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook and I’m saying everything in there out loud.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

279. “It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

281. “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

282. “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

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

285. “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

286. “2,000 dollar bag with no cash in your purse.”

— Kanye West

287. “Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they’d still want love.”

— Kanye West

288. “I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

291. “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

292. “I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West

295. “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

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

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

— Kanye West

299. “I want to dress like a child as much as possible.”

— Kanye West

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

— Kanye West