“I’m a blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish.”
— Kanye West
“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.”
“Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing...”
“The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.”
“You want me to be great, but you don’t ever want me to say I’m great?”
“I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it’s illegal to be naked.”
“They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they’d call me Mr. Glass?”
“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.”
“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!”
“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!’”
“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.”
“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.”
“Like, this is my baby. This isn’t America’s baby.”
“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.”
“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you. I’ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”
“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.”
“I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.”
“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.”
“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.’”
“I don’t like to say something’s weird when it’s innovative and fresh.”
“I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: ‘This is the level that things could be at.’”
“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.”
“I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?”
“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...”
“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.”
“I want to dress like a child as much as possible.”
“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.”
“Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they’d still want love.”
“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.”
“They classify my motivational speeches as rants!”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.”
“The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.”
“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.”
“I looked at Justin, and I was like: ‘Do you want me to go onstage for you?’”
“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?”
“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.”
“I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.”
“Whenever y’all are in the store from and y’all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it’s okay.”
“As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that’s why I don’t use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.”
“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.”
“You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.”
“I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.”
“I wouldn’t even say that I’m a rapper. I’d say I’m more of a messenger.”
“I gotta new strategy it’s called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.”
“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.”
“If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.”
“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.”
“I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.”
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