That Kanye West eh? He says something funny, ridiculous, or downright silly almost every day. We love him because of that.
And in case you didn’t think Kanye West’s quotesCould top that – these are his illustrations mostBrilliant/WTF one-liners to date…
1. ‘Whoa by 50 percent [I am more influential than] Stanley Kubrick, Apostle Paul, Picasso… f****** Picasso and Escobar. By 50 per cent more influential than any other human being.’
2. ‘When you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.’
3. ‘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 who has done so much, and that’s a mentality that suppresses humanity…’
4. ‘One of my biggest achilles heels has been my ego. If I were to, Kanye West, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.’
5. ‘I don’t think there’s a living celebrity with more weapons formed against him, but I don’t think there’s one more prosperous.’
6. ‘So, the voices in my head told me go, and then I just walked up, like, halfway up the stage… But I just didn’t really want to take away from Beck’s moment, or the time he’s having to talk. It was kind of a joke – like the Grammys themselves.’
7. ‘I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.’
8. ‘I think what KanyeWest is likely to refer to something similar to Steve Jobs. I amYou know Steve, the internet, downtown fashion, and culture. It’s that simple. This was quite a leap. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay Z was allowed to become Jay Z.’
9. ‘Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I amI’m not a huge fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.’
10. ‘I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.’
11. ‘I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.’
12. ‘One of the problems with being a bubbling source of creativity – it’s like I’m bubbling in a laboratory, and if you don’t put a cap on it, at one point it will, like, break the glass. If I can hone that… then I have, like, nuclear power, like a superhero, like Cyclops when he puts his glasses on.’
13. ‘You should only believe about 90 percent of what I say. As a matter of fact, don’t even believe anything that I’m saying at all. I could be completely fucking with you, and the world, the entire time.’
14. ‘I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.’
15. ‘There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.’
16. ‘I’m a pop enigma. Every element of life is important to me. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold’s for fried chicken. It’s all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.’
17. ‘People ask me a lot about my drive. It could be a result of having a sexual addiction from a young age. Take a look at the desire to have sex. People will dress up like this, get a haircut, and go to the club at 3 AM to meet a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.’
18. ‘I jog in Lanvin.’
19. About Kim Kardashian: ‘Y’all are acting like this ain’t the mostBeautiful woman of all times. Wait a second, wait a second – I’m talking about arguably of human existence. The top 10 of human existence… I don’t give a f*ck what type of jacket she got on.’
20. ‘Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.’
21. ‘If you read books – which I don’t, none at all – about how to become a billionaire, they always say, ‘You learn more from your mistakes.’ So if you learn from your mistakes, then I’m a f*cking genius.’
22. ‘I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.’
23. ‘I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.’
24. ‘Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.’
25. ‘I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It’s like cursing. It’s like cursing. mostIs there anything more disgusting than someone killing another person? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.’
26. ‘I’m a designer. A musician. Manager. A manager. [sic] people who believe in themselves.’ KanyeEven West manages to come up with a new word in one of his mid-set rants during Wireless Festival 2014.
27. ‘For me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most. Dopeness. People who want to make things as dope as possible, and, by default, make money from it.’
28. ‘I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I have a deep understanding of culture. I understand culture. am the nucleus.’
29. ‘I amIn the Gil Scott Heron lineage, great activists-type artists. But I’m also in the linage of a Miles Davis, you know, that liked nice things too.’
30. ‘Just imagine if I woke up one day and I was whack. What would I do then?’
31. ‘I amThe number one musician in the world. That means any person that’s living or breathing is number two.’
32. ‘Oh my God, I’m one of the greatest rappers in the world.’
33. ‘The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don’t think that I would be one of the characters of today’s modern Bible?’
34. ‘I’m the closest that hip-hop is getting to God. In some situations I’m like a ghetto Pope.’
35. ‘I’m doing pretty good as far as geniuses go…I’m like a machine. I’m a robot. You cannot offend a robot.’
36. ‘I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that “already flying and now we’re just flying together” thing.’
37. ‘I paid my dues when I had to wear a kilt in Chicago, and friends would say, “What’s your boy got on?” but there are warriors that have killed people in kilts in the past.’
38. ‘I’m going to be the Tupac of clothing.’
