30 Best Kanye West Quotes
Kanye West is an American rapper, producer and singer, regarded as a hip-hop legend. West used to produce music for the local hip-hop bands in Chicago and dropped out of college for the same. Soon, West started to work with Jermaine Dupri and Foxy Brown. His much needed break came when he produced music for ‘Roc-a-fella Records’ in 2000. He started producing hit singles for artists like Alicia Keys and Jay Z. In 2004, his debut album ‘College Drop-Out’ drew both critical acclaim and commercial success. That’s when he founded the record label GOOD MUSIC.
Later, with releases like ‘Slow Jamz’, ‘Jesus Walks’, ‘Late Registration’, and ‘Graduation’ Kanye was able to make a mark in the rap world. With ‘Jesus Walks’ earning him a ‘Grammy’, his career began to shine. ‘Stage crashing’ and seizing the opportunity to voice out his thoughts on music and politics alike has become his style. He is quite vocal on various issues through mainstream media and social media and some of his quotes and thoughts have really become popular with people. Barely a day goes by when he doesn’t say something hilarious, ridiculous or sometime down right silly. This iconic star never seems to lose his sheen and so are his thoughts, sayings and quotations!
Kanye West Quotes:
- “Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
― Kanye West - “I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle”
― Kanye West - “Everything I’m not makes me everything I am”
― Kanye West - “If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”
― kanye west - “For me giving up is way harder than trying.”
― Kanye West - “Love your haters – they’re your biggest fans”
― Kanye West - “..my music isn’t just music- its medicine.”
― Kanye West - “Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.”
― Kanye West - “Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you”
― Kanye West - “Believe in your flyness…conquer your shyness”
― Kanye West - “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.”
― Kanye West - “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.”
― kanye West - “Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap… I wonder if they’re clapping because they liked what they saw or because they’re happy it’s over?”
― Kanye West - “To use is necessary. And if you can’t be used, then you’re useless.”
― Kanye West - “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 - “My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
― Kanye West - “That that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger.”
― Kanye West - “They say ya additude determines ya laditude…”
― Kanye West - “Success is the best revenge.”
― Kanye West - “My life is dope and I do dope shit.”
― Kanye West - “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.”
― Kanye West - “homie I’m graduated”
― Kanye West - “If you know you’re the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS”
― Kanye West - “The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”
― Kanye West - “I’ve known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.”
― Kanye West - “As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.”
― Kanye West - “Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books … I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.”
― Kanye West - “I heard you like to do it with the lights on. But i really make babies when the mic’s on. ”
― kanye west - “Keep rockin’, and keep knockin’
Whether you Louis Vuitton it up or Reebokin’
You see the hate, that they’re servin’ on a platter
So what we gon’ have, dessert or disaster?”
― Kanye West - “George Bush doesn’t care about black people…
They’re saying black families are looting and
white families are just looking for food…
they’re giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.”
― Kanye West
