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"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?"
"Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles."
"If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do"
"If you have power, you have to empower."
"George W. Bush doesn't care about black people."
"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."
"If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now."
"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’."
"There's a lack of creativity in every field because people are afraid. As an artist in this world we can do whatever we want"
"Starting now, you're just starting to see a glimmer of what the idea of West will mean. So right now, at this age and with this visibility and with the skill sets that Kim is now giving me, I think I have a good chance of success in building something that has longevity, high integrity, high success rate, and is very fulfilling, not only for me creatively but also in adding fulfillment to people's lives. Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding magic."
"I'm the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?"
"I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present."
"People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building."
"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."
"We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs."
"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.'"