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Motivational Kanye West Quotes and Sayings

Kanye West Quotes:- Kanye West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer.

West is among the most critically acclaimed musicians of the 21st century, with his music has spanned a broad range of styles, incorporating an eclectic range of influences including hip hop, soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock, synth-pop, industrial, and gospel.

Inspirational Kanye West Quotes

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Inspirational Kanye West Quotes

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.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, videotapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
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If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.
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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.
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It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
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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.
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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.
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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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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.
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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.
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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.
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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?’
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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
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I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
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I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
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If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.
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I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
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My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.
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I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.
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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.
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The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
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I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.
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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.
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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.’
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The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.
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My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.
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Famous Kanye West Quotes

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?
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Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.
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Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.
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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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I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.
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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.
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I didn’t know the term ‘synesthesia’ until I was working on ‘Cruel Summer.’ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.
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Top Kanye West Quotes And Sayings

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
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I dislike the concept of ‘chic’ being the highest compliment for a human being. I’d rather someone be nice than to be chic.
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Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.
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My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.
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I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
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Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.
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