Top 100 Pharrell Williams Quotes
#2. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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#3. 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.
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#4. The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.
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#5. As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
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#9. Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.
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#10. In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#15. Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.
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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL
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#19. Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.
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#20. 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.
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#21. If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.
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#22. You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.
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#24. 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.
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#26. First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.
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#27. All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.
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#32. Week before that, I was out in Italy
Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me
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#34. 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."
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#36. 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.
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#37. I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.
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#38. My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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#39. 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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#40. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#47. Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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#55. Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.
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#59. Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.
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#61. I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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#62. The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.
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#63. I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
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#67. From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#72. There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.
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#74. There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.
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#76. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.
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#77. The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.
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#78. You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you
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#79. I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#88. 'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#100. 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.
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