Top 162 Quotes & Sayings by Pharrell Williams - Page 3

A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.

The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

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.

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.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can’t? What is this? This is 2014.

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.

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 prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

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."

Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.

Fashion is far more about really feel than science.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy.

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.

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

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

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

More than anything, I wanted to make sure that everybody was a pusher of difference. And they had to be able to do it in a communicative way, not esoterically. Because there are a lot of people who push things forward but sometimes only you and two people out of 500 in the room get it, but you want somebody who has mastered their craft so well that an 8-year-old gets it just like an 80-year-old gets it. They get the same visceral feeling.

You ain't heard that we swallow guys?

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Fashion is more than fell about science

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

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.

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