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" I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production. "
Kanye West
Always
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Due
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" Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all. "
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" I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud. "
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" All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. "
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" Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids. "
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" My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite. "
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" It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs. "
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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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" Our work is never over. "
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" In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. "
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" I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised. "
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" Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. "
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I Am
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" I love sleep; it's my favorite. "
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Love
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" Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun. "
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" My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. "
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" I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do. "
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Blessed
Family
Love
" Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go. "
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I Can
Nobody
Go
" Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way. "
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Think
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Artist
" I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel. "
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Right
Say
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" Nothing in life is promised except death. "
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Death
Nothing
Promised
" Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it? "
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Only
Who
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" I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever. "
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People
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" I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power. "
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Water
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" I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. "
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School
" I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14. "
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" Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. "
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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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" It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight. "
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Fight
Always
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" If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. "
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" I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse. "
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" In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. "
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