Kanye West Quotes (69 Quotes)


    Of course my prayers are with U2 and their families at this time, and I'm sure their fans share that sentiment with me. It's been an incredible experience touring with U2. They are a truly special band, a great organization, and their fans are the best in the world.

    I don't want to detract from the show at all, because it's entertainment, and a lot of times, in a time of need, we need entertainment to lift people's spirits,

    George Bush doesn't care about black people.

    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?

    We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.


    Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteemOr use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams.

    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.

    ...my music isn't just music- it's medicine.

    Def Jam chief Jay-Z told us yesterday he 100 supported ... George Bush doesn't care about black people.

    They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass.

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

    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.

    Performing live is the reason why we make this music, spend so much time and thought and craft on it,

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

    Made a mill myself (ooooooo) And I'm still myself (ooooooo) And I'ma look in da mirror if I need some help (yeaaaah) Y'all dont speak from da heart Y'all all frontin Everybody feel a way about K but at least y'all feel sumthin


    Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

    Ten nominations, that's amazing. That's like a perfect score. I'm at a loss for words.

    Whatever happened to making that black music n---a ... It's certain people that get certain accolades, and they forget. This song, 'Crack Music,' has a few layers because it says that this is the music that's made from the crack generation.

    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.

    George Bush doesn't care about black judicial nominees

    Winning for Song of the Year or Record of the Year is definitely important, but Album of the Year is the most important. I'm not stepping on a court just to make it to the playoffs. I'm trying to leave with the trophy.

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

    I just let my heart speak for itself without thinking about my image or how it's going to hurt me financially. I felt the world needed to hear from me ... I just do it, and I say what I really feel.

    Many have been quick to accuse him of racism. George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... It's as if we blacks are condemned.

    I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

    During my high school years, it's the music that I really felt saved me. It kept me out of the streets, it kept me from getting into trouble, it gave me something to do when I got kicked off the basketball team. You just get lost in the music. That's what I did.

    I look at voices as instruments. I wasnt going after the person or the name. I wanted their voice.

    Now that your 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.

    Clear Channel Radio announced today a new lineup of artists to appear on its online video series, Stripped. ... artists who thrive on performing without the typical studio and video embellishments. Just music, raw and real.

    How we stop the black panthers; Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer; You hear that; What Gil Scott was hearin; When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin. Crack raised the murder rate in DC and Maryland; We invested in that it's like we got Merril-Lynch; And we been hangin from the same tree ever since.

    She had hair so long that it looked like weaveThen she cut it all off now she look like Eve

    It's hard when people are depending on you to have an album that's not just good, but inspired. I mean, my music isn't just music -- it's medicine. I want my songs to touch people, to give them what they need. Every time I make an album, I'm trying to make a cure for cancer, musically.


    Nothing in life is promised except death.

    Jackson called President Bush's response incompetent ... George Bush doesn't care about black people.

    George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... as slow as possible.

    F--- that ... We not gonna wait for 10 shows from now, we gonna touch the sky tonight.

    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.

    So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help--with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way...and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us

    I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll s on this lyrical sht, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

    Others thought the sample was too corny, ... and I had to listen to them. Mainly, I realized I may be going too fast in trying to open new dimensions in hip-hop. I needed to take one step at a time if I wanted to bring my audience with me.

    I want to direct. Have you ever seen any of my work

    Though it's thousands of miles awaySierra Leone connect to what we go through todayOver here, its a drug trade, we die from drugsOver there, they die from what we buy from drugs

    Picture me, someone who likes cinematic-sounding stuff, having someone who actually scores movies to help produce the album.

    For this to be John Legend's first time and him to be tied with the most for this year's nominations is just incredible.

    I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

    To my fellow artists and entertainers, please give your time and use your voice to help spread a message of unity. Please, let's come together in this time of crisis to help our people and our communities and our country.

    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.

    I played him the song, ... He said, 'I got a song just like that, but I don't know if my fans will like that because it's a little RB. But I want to do a record like that.' He already had the chorus. I used to play that song for people, but girls never liked the song. ... Adam laid his vocals to that, girls start liking the record and it's the third single.


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