Pharrell Williams famous quotes

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Morning #Thank God #Firsts

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

#Color #Learning Experience

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

#Circus #Want #Tricks

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

#Missing #Inspire #Want

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

#Fashion #Moments #Feels

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

#Feelings #Trying #Albums

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

#Journey #Lines #Trophies

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."
-- Pharrell Williams

#Song #Kids #Men

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

#Air #Keyboards #Canvas

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

#Art #People #Shakes

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

#Motivation

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

#New York #Japan #People

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.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Mean

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

#Thinking #Forever #Ego

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

#Yesterday #Order #Holding On

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you
-- Pharrell Williams

#Space #Inward #Outer Space

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Judgement

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket
-- Pharrell Williams

#Heart #Mind #Pockets

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

#Light #People #Film

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

#Creativity #Loyal

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Life Is #Carousels

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Perspective #Firsts #Fans

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

#Individuality #Let It Go #Frozen

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

#People #Culture #Way

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

#Rooms #Roof #Feels

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

#Important #Messages #Very Thankful

Fashion is more about feel than science.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Fashion #Feels

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Air #Feelings #Painting

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

#Dream #Race #Issues

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

#Purpose #Intention #Results

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

#Morning #Blue #How You Feel

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

#Team #Ideas #Design

When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.
-- Pharrell Williams

#Order #Jelly #Sandwiches