Kanye West

I was so happy when I saw Jimmy Kimmel walk out in the Yeezys. That was an olive branch. He lead with love. I appreciate Jimmy and his team. You guys are Jedi’s. much love.

Because I talk so much shit they give me overcredit just to shut me up!

Even when I tweeted that I was in debt, that gave me power.

I have to work with IKEA… Yo, IKEA, let Kanye create! I want a bed that he makes! I want a chair that he makes! I want more products from Ye!

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also thoughtful.

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

When there was vinyl, I just loved opening a record and smelling that wonderful smell.

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn’t only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

Jazz? has no boundaries.

It’s always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she’s the same old broad.

I am a writer – that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you’re creating a musical event.

The emotional reaction is all that matters.

Women have not been socialized to play drums. It’s not natural for us to hit thing.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Play for the spiritual aspect, the emotion.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The hidden things, the subconscious that lies in the body and lets you know: You feel this, you play this.

You don’t rehearse Jazz to death to get the camera angles.