Kanye West Quotes

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.

Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.

I still have plenty of fight left in me.

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.

I'm not a quitter - never have been.

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.