Pharrell Williams Quotes & Sayings

I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that. — Pharrell Williams

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message. — Pharrell Williams

I stay grounded because everyone around me floats — Pharrell Williams

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people. — Pharrell Williams

My ideal travel companions are my family. — Pharrell Williams

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes. — Pharrell Williams

Week before that, I was out in Italy
Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me — Pharrell Williams

I don't know about style mistakes. — Pharrell Williams

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though. — Pharrell Williams

The keyboard is my journal. — Pharrell Williams

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great. — Pharrell Williams

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option. — Pharrell Williams

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere. — Pharrell Williams

Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint. — Pharrell Williams

In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all. — Pharrell Williams

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing. — Pharrell Williams

Collaborate with people you can learn from — Pharrell Williams

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire. — Pharrell Williams

I love what I do, I love my job. — Pharrell Williams

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not. — Pharrell Williams

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that. — Pharrell Williams

I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress. — Pharrell Williams

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. — Pharrell Williams

I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things. — Pharrell Williams

Be appreciative ... that's what keeps me happy. — Pharrell Williams

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path. — Pharrell Williams

Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It's what you haven't dreamt of yet that will blow your mind — Pharrell Williams

My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark. — Pharrell Williams

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within. — Pharrell Williams

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great. — Pharrell Williams

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results. — Pharrell Williams

I think all music is a gift from God. — Pharrell Williams

If you kiss her mind, her body will follow. — Pharrell Williams

The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting. — Pharrell Williams

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it. — Pharrell Williams

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate. — Pharrell Williams

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones. — Pharrell Williams

Fashion is more about feel than science. — Pharrell Williams

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences. — Pharrell Williams

Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful. — Pharrell Williams

You ain't heard that we swallow guys? — Pharrell Williams

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday. — Pharrell Williams

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that. — Pharrell Williams

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing. — Pharrell Williams

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that. — Pharrell Williams

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light. — Pharrell Williams

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand. — Pharrell Williams

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction. — Pharrell Williams

The "new black" doesn't blame other races for our issues. The "new black" dreams and realizes that it's not a pigmentation; it's a mentality. And it's either going to work for you, or it's going to work against you. And you've got to pick the side you're gonna be on. — Pharrell Williams

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman. — Pharrell Williams

The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be. — Pharrell Williams

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world. — Pharrell Williams

Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof — Pharrell Williams

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost. — Pharrell Williams

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want ... create your own constellation — Pharrell Williams

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop. — Pharrell Williams

I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed. — Pharrell Williams

I answer questions the best I can. — Pharrell Williams

I like anything sweet. — Pharrell Williams

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. — Pharrell Williams

Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don't mind staying apart like this. — Pharrell Williams

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. — Pharrell Williams

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist. — Pharrell Williams

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum. — Pharrell Williams

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful. — Pharrell Williams

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things. — Pharrell Williams

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer. — Pharrell Williams

So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture. — Pharrell Williams

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done. — Pharrell Williams

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity — Pharrell Williams

Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well — Pharrell Williams

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression. — Pharrell Williams

If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow. — Pharrell Williams

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are — Pharrell Williams

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special. — Pharrell Williams

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God. — Pharrell Williams

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows. — Pharrell Williams

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift. — Pharrell Williams

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams

The element of harmony is super important. — Pharrell Williams

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass. — Pharrell Williams

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it. — Pharrell Williams

When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album. — Pharrell Williams

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard. — Pharrell Williams

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys. — Pharrell Williams

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures. — Pharrell Williams

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better. — Pharrell Williams

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going. — Pharrell Williams

As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and really at the end of the day it's the fans that make that determination. Because if they don't buy it, stream it, share it or talk about it, then you're just a crazy person with an idea. — Pharrell Williams

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about. — Pharrell Williams

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up. — Pharrell Williams

Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student. — Pharrell Williams

Fashion is more than fell about science — Pharrell Williams

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did. — Pharrell Williams

Women think about things in a holistic way that's not just so individual. And I'm saying the thing is, is if we had somebody looking after our country that thought about things as a whole, I just feel like it just would be different. — Pharrell Williams

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores. — Pharrell Williams

Stars don't sit still, they twinkle — Pharrell Williams

For me, nothing is given. — Pharrell Williams

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear. — Pharrell Williams