Kanye West Quotes

• 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.

  Kanye West

• 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.

  Kanye West

• I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’

  Kanye West

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

  Kanye West

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

  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 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

• George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

  Kanye West

• Fashion breaks my heart.

  Kanye West

• 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.

  Kanye West

• 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.

  Kanye West

Kanye West (31)

Birth:	8th June, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician

About

Kanye Omari West  achieved recognition for his work on rapper Jay-Z's The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used high-pitched vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. He later broadened his influences to include 1970s R&B, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synthpop, industrial, and classical music.

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