Pharrell Williams Quotes
I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
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.
It's cool that you hear something, but what did you feel and what was your tactile and kinesthetic response to it? Those songs and creative sessions mean the most.
You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.
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.
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.
I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.
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
Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.
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.
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
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.
I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.
I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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.
When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity
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.
I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.
There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.
I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.
The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.
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.