Kanye West Quotes

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

To create something you must be something.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

All I have, really, is my creativity.

I am an inventor of music.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

When I first heard Bjork's music, I felt like I was a similar-minded thinker, both harmonically and melodically. She takes those things that you naturally assume to be opposite because they're presented that way most of the time, and the way she twines them together is so beautiful. To be able to do that is so powerful.

I like trying to be creative.

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn't be that guy, that's for sure.

I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.