Top 162 Quotes & Sayings by Pharrell Williams
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Pharrell Williams.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.
I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
I only entertain very close friends.
When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.
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.
Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
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.
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.
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.
I love what I do, I love my job.
I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.
I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.
I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.
Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.
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 you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.
You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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.
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.
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.
I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.
I think all music is a gift from God.
You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.
The element of harmony is super important.
I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.
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.
My ideal travel companions are my family.
I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
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.
The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.
My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.
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.
I love making music, though. I love playing.
I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.
The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.
When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.
Fashion is more about feel than science.
I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.
My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
I answer questions the best I can.
Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.
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.
The keyboard is my journal.
I like the world.
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 don't know about style mistakes.
It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
For me, nothing is given.
I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.
I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.
I like anything sweet.
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