Pharrell Williams Quotes

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

— 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

“I love what I do, I love my job.”

— Pharrell Williams

I like the world.

— Pharrell Williams

“I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.”

— 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

“It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.”

— Pharrell Williams

I think all music is a gift from God.

— Pharrell Williams

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

— 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

“I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.”

— 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

“I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.”

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“I love making music, though. I love playing.”

— 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

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

— Pharrell Williams

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

— 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

“My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.”

— Pharrell Williams

“Fashion is more about feel than science.”

— Pharrell Williams

“I like anything sweet.”

— Pharrell Williams

“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 don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.”

— 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

“Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life”

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“There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.”

— 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

“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

“Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.”

— Pharrell Williams

“That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.”

— Pharrell Williams

It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.

— Pharrell Williams

“The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.”

— 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

“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

“You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.”

— 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

“Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof”

— 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

“Stars don't sit still, they twinkle”

— Pharrell Williams

“Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was ... frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to ... let it go.”

— Pharrell Williams

“If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.”

— Pharrell Williams

I just like when stuff feels good. 'Happy' feels good.

— Pharrell Williams

“I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.”

— 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.”

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“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.”

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“Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.”

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“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

“Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.”

— Pharrell Williams

“We're nothing without science. Nothing.”

— 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