Kanye West: Quotes about life

Kanye West is American rapper, singer and songwriter. Explore interesting quotes on life.

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“Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!”

Source: p.13-14 Thank You and You're Welcome (2009)

“Last night I saw you in my dreams/Now I can't wait to go to sleep/And this life is all a dream/So my real life starts when I go to sleep.”

"Hey Mama", Live Grammy Performance, February 2008
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)

“If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you have to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate their moment until it's passed.”

2005 Grammy acceptance speech

“And the weather so breezy/Man why can't life always be this easy?”

Flashing Lights
Lyrics, Graduation (2007)

“I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. […] And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.”

Interview for Saturday Night Online [3:12]. http://www.saturdaynightonline.com/media/play/24063493/

“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with angels.”

Mark 8:35-37
Bible References

“Mama, your son in the red hat
Had suffered set-backs, had 'shouldn't-have-said-thats'
Had made everyone mad Give 'em enough of they own rope to hang 'em with
The paparazzi never really got what my angle is
They treat my married life like some type of entanglement.”

Life of the Party
Lyrics, Donda (2021)

“I'm not loving you, way I wanted to
I can't keep my cool, so I keep it true
I got something to lose, so I gotta move
I can't keep myself and still keep you too No more wasting time, you can't wait for life
We're just racing time, where's the finish line?”

Love Lockdown
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)

“Chased the good life my whole life long
Look back on my life, and my life gone
Where did I go wrong? And my head keeps spinning
Can't stop having these visions
I gotta get with it.”

Welcome to Heartbreak
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)

“She don't believe in shooting stars
But she believe in shoes and cars Order the hors d'oeuvres, views of the water
Straight from a page of your favorite author
And the weather's so breezy
Man, why can't life always be this easy?”

Flashing Lights
Lyrics, Graduation (2007)

“They say people in your life are seasons
And anything that happens is for a reason The devil is alive, I feel him breathin'
Claiming money is the key, so keep on dreamin'
And put them lottery tickets just to tease us”

Heard 'Em Say
Lyrics, Late Registration (2005)

“Now that you're gone, it hit us
Super hard on Thankgiving and Christmas, this can't be right.
Yo, you heard the track I did man, 'This Can't Be Life'.
Somebody please say grace so I can save face
And have a reason to cover my face.”

Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

“How do you console my mom or give her light support
Tellin' her her son's on life support?
And just imagine how my girl feel,
On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till.”

Through the Wire
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)