Kanye West Quotes
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I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.
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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?
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I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.
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I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.
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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.
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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
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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.
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It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.
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I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
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I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.
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I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.
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People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
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Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?
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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.
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Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.
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My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.
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I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.
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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.
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I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.
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I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.
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I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.
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Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.