"I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer.""
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Kanye West quotes (page 6 of 25)
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"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."
"There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture."
"I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked."
"I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE."
"I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants."
"I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility."
"People always try to box you in to what they know you best for."
"You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else."
"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."
"I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy."
"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."
"I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes."
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is."
"Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson."
"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."
"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?"
"I still think I am the greatest."
"50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up."
"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."