110+ Kanye West Quotes On Success, Fashion And God

Kanye West is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. He is one of the most influential and successful musicians of the 21st century, having sold more than 140 million records worldwide. He is also the founder and head of the creative content company, DONDA. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kanye West on love, success, fashion.

Top 10 Kanye West Quotes

1. You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.
2. Success is the best revenge.
3. Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness
4. I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
5. The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?
6. If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
7. They say your attitude determines your latitude.
8. If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
9. If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.
10. Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

Kanye West Image Quotes

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness — Kanye West

They say your attitude determines your latitude. — Kanye West

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased. — Kanye West

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive. — Kanye West

George Bush doesn't care about black people. — Kanye West

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope. — Kanye West

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic. — Kanye West

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome — Kanye West

The prettiest people do the ugliest things. — Kanye West

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. — Kanye West

Kanye West Short Quotes

• I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.
• If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.
• Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome
• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
• I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
• What happens if a drone falls right next to her?
• No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.
• You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.
• Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
• If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.

Kanye West Quotes About Love

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. — Kanye West

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans — 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

I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes. — Kanye West

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’. — Kanye West

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time! — Kanye West

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care. — Kanye West

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. — Kanye West

I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it. — Kanye West

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things]. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Success

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do? — Kanye West

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label. — Kanye West

Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself. — Kanye West

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success. — Kanye West

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Fashion

People say, 'What do you mean you want to help the world, but you're so concerned about fashion?' It's illegal to be naked. It is something that is extremely important. — Kanye West

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something. — Kanye West

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

Fashion breaks my heart. — Kanye West

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

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

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix. — Kanye West

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing. — Kanye West

I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side. — Kanye West

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About God

Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt. — Kanye West

I am God's vessel. But 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

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector. — Kanye West

I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here. — Kanye West

Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show. — Kanye West

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? — Kanye West

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do. — Kanye West

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants. — Kanye West

Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Money

This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home — Kanye West

Being fresh is more important than having money. — Kanye West

Wait 'till I get my money right. — Kanye West

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love. — Kanye West

50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up. — Kanye West

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap... — Kanye West

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. — Kanye West

Having money isn't everything, not having it is. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Books

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 would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. — Kanye West

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education. — Kanye West

I am not a fan of books. — Kanye West

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!! — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Life

Memories have to be our most painful blessing. — Kanye West

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

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. — Kanye West

I live and breathe every element in life. — Kanye West

Nothing in life is promised except death. — Kanye West

I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. — Kanye West

I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something. — Kanye West

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 — Kanye West

As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast? Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass? And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did it And if you did, then that's family business. — Kanye West

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

Kanye West Quotes About Creative

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West

I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity. — Kanye West

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music. — Kanye West

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing. — Kanye West

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns — Kanye West

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it. — Kanye West

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

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed. — Kanye West

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. — Kanye West

It's crazy that we live in a world where if your super positive and super creative...it's scary. Because what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if your scared of like...positivity. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Innovative

I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.' — Kanye West

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. — Kanye West

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh. — Kanye West

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

Kanye West Quotes About People

George Bush doesn't care about black people. — Kanye West

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury. — Kanye West

The prettiest people do the ugliest things. — Kanye West

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem. — Kanye West

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant. — Kanye West

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh. — Kanye West

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people. — 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

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.' — 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

Kanye West Quotes About Family

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. — Kanye West

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family. — Kanye West

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. — Kanye West

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby. — Kanye West

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family. — Kanye West

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened. — Kanye West

Kris [Jenner] and the family, they have the power of communication. This is the number one communications company. — Kanye West

Kanye West Quotes About Music

I guess every superhero need his theme music. — Kanye West

I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music. — Kanye West

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.' — Kanye West

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

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two. — Kanye West

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit. — Kanye West

I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen — Kanye West

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well. — Kanye West

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. — Kanye West

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

Kanye West Quotes About Feel

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility. — Kanye West

I've been saying how I feel at the wrong time. — Kanye West

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. — Kanye West

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix. — Kanye West

What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing. — Kanye West

Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe — Kanye West

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible. — Kanye West

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel. — Kanye West

Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good? — Kanye West

I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad. — Kanye West

Kanye West Famous Quotes And Sayings

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness — Kanye West

They say your attitude determines your latitude. — Kanye West

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased. — Kanye West

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive. — Kanye West

George Bush doesn't care about black people. — Kanye West

For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids. — Kanye West

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic. — Kanye West

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips. — Kanye West

Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome — Kanye West

The prettiest people do the ugliest things. — Kanye West

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. — Kanye West

I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh. — 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

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. — Kanye West

People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all. — Kanye West

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness. — Kanye West

This dark diction has become America's addiction. — Kanye West

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build. — Kanye West

Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don’t know any personally. — Kanye West

All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has. — Kanye West

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home. — Kanye West

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that. — Kanye West

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE. — Kanye West

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture. — 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. — Kanye West

Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. — Kanye West

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. — Kanye West

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time. — Kanye West

'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?' She say she only here for her girl birthday... They ordered champagne but still look thirsty, Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30. — Kanye West

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away. — Kanye West

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

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. — Kanye West

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all." — Kanye West

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

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

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear. — Kanye West

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression. — Kanye West

I'm living three dreams: Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's. Cause we can't get along, no resolution? 'Til we drown all these haters... Rest in peace to Whitney Houston — Kanye West

I understand culture. I am the nucleus. — 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

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. — Kanye West

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year. — Kanye West

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? — Kanye West

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. — Kanye West

If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do — Kanye West

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place. — Kanye West

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building. — Kanye West

I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth. — Kanye West

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. — Kanye West

If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how. — Kanye West

Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off. — Kanye West

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs. — Kanye West

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present. — Kanye West

"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves." — Kanye West

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things. — Kanye West

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war. — Kanye West

Don't Ever fix your lips like collagen And say something when you gon' end up apologing — Kanye West

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West

Life Lessons by Kanye West

1. Through Kanye West's work, you can learn the importance of staying true to yourself and your creative vision.
2. His success is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication to achieving your goals.
3. He also demonstrates the value of collaboration and networking with other artists to create something unique and powerful.