Kanye West Quotes

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

I want to win Grammys.

Well, 20 Grammys is not bad.

Macklemore gets a Grammy over Kendrick Lamar. I still can't get over that. But again, it's not Macklemore's fault. It's the way of the country.

One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.

Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.

It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty - Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy.

I want Grammys.

I want every Grammy.

If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.

One of the first country artists I got to work with was Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.

I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre.

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.