Kanye West is certainly one of most polarizing figures in music and popular culture today. While his albums do receive a lot of critical acclaim, the man himself isn’t one to keep his opinions to himself, and he’s attracted a lot of negative attention for interrupting other artists at award ceremonies, continuing to wear fur and just thinking himself better than everyone else. When it comes to expressing your opinion no matter how crazy it may sound, no one does it quite like Kanye, so here are 14 crazy quotes from Kanye West.
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‘My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.’
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‘When you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.’
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‘Sometimes when people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.’
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‘I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.’
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‘Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?’
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‘I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.’
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‘I’m like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.’
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‘I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.’
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‘I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.’
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‘I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that’s living or breathing is number two.’
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‘I’m the closest that hip-hop is getting to God. In some situations I’m like a ghetto Pope.’
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‘This is not the album of the year. This is the album of the life.’
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‘Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.’
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‘Don’t ask me what I think the best song of last year was, because my opinion is the same as most of America’s. It was “Gold Digger”.’
