Pharrell Williams quotes:

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

  • I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.

  • I only entertain very close friends.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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 answer questions the best I can.

  • 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.

  • Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are

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

  • My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

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

  • I love making music, though. I love playing.

  • My ideal travel companions are my family.

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

  • Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

  • 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 think all music is a gift from God.

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

  • 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 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.

  • You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

  • The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

  • I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

  • Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

  • I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

  • I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

  • I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

  • I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.

  • I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

  • When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

  • Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

  • 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.

  • Be appreciative... that's what keeps me happy.

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

  • Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

  • Collaborate with people you can learn from

  • Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

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

  • Fashion is far more about really feel than science.

  • Fashion is more about feel than science.

  • Fashion is more than fell about science

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

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

  • 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.

  • I don't know about style mistakes.

  • I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

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

  • I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

  • I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

  • I just like when stuff feels good. 'Happy' feels good.

  • I like anything sweet.

  • I love what I do, I love my job.

  • I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

  • I stay grounded because everyone around me floats

  • I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

  • I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow.

  • If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.

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

  • I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

  • 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.

  • In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.

  • It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

  • 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.

  • It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Stars don't sit still, they twinkle

  • Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

  • That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

  • 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 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.

  • The element of harmony is super important.

  • The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

  • 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.

  • The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

  • 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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