Top 120 Pharrell Williams Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I love what I do, I love my job.”

— Pharrell Williams

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2. “Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket.”

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3. “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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4. “If you’re not learning, you’re wasting your time.”

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

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6. “Collaborate with people you can learn from.”

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7. “Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you’re going.”

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8. “Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.”

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9. “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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10. “That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.”

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11. “If you kiss a woman’s mind, her body will follow.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “Stars don’t sit still, they twinkle.”

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14. “You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you.”

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15. “You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.”

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16. “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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17. “The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.”

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18. “Fashion is more about feel than science.”

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19. “I think all music is a gift from God.”

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “We’re nothing without science. Nothing.”

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24. “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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25. “I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.”

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26. “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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27. “Stay loyal to your creativity because it’s a gift.”

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28. “It’s not what you’re wearing, it’s the way you wear it.”

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29. “Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof.”

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30. “It can’t be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It’s not the kite. It’s the air.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.”

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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “I don’t want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “You ain’t heard that we swallow guys?”

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

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41. “When you’re playing, you’re playing something for the world to hear.”

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42. “I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.”

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43. “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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44. “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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45. “My ideal travel companions are my family.”

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46. “Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.”

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47. “I stay grounded because everyone around me floats.”

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48. “I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.”

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49. “Right now, musically I’m inspired by everyday people.”

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50. “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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