Top 100 Pharrell 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. I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.
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#5. 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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#6. As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.
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#8. I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
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#9. 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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#10. I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
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#11. I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].
Paul Oakenfold
#12. Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#17. 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.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.
Nia Long
#23. 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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#24. 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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#26. Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.
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#30. You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out.
Busta Rhymes
#32. 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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#33. 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.
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#35. First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.
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#36. 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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#37. 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.
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#38. I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as I'm getting placements and I'm making good music and able to support myself - I'm good.
Rahki
#39. 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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#40. Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. Week before that, I was out in Italy
Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me
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#47. 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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#48. 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.
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#49. It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
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#51. 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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#52. I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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#56. Pharrell has always been my style idol.
Kanye West
#57. Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.
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#58. I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.
Bruno Mars
#59. 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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#60. 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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#62. 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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#68. 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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#69. When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#75. You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
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#76. 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.
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#77. That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.
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#78. Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want ... create your own constellation
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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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#84. Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.
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#85. 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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#86. 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
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#88. Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.
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#90. 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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#93. I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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#94. I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.
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#97. I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.
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#98. 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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#99. I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.
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