Top 120 Pharrell Williams Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Pharrell Williams

52. “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.”

— Pharrell Williams

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.”

— Pharrell Williams

54. “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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55. “I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don’t want to grow up.”

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56. “Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.”

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57. “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

58. “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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59. “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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60. “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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61. “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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62. “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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63. “I wanted clothing that I couldn’t find, so I decided to make it.”

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64. “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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65. “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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66. “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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67. “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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68. “Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It’s what you haven’t dreamt of yet that will blow your mind.”

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69. “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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70. “You learn from experiences, and I suppose that’s where I color most of my music, from experiences.”

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71. “I’m just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that’s the most important message.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.”

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74. “I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.”

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75. “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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76. “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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77. “You sort of have to become what you’re wearing.”

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78. “When I’m in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.”

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79. “Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.”

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80. “I prefer a woman’s way of dealing with things.”

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81. “Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.”

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82. “I’m always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.”

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83. “I don’t know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.”

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84. “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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85. “I’m a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.”

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86. “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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87. “I like anything sweet.”

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88. “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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89. “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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90. “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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91. “When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity.”

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92. “I’ve never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.”

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93. “I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.”

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94. “So when I’m playing, I’m sort of painting a feeling in the air.”

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95. “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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96. “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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97. “You get used to it when you feel like you’re an artist.”

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98. “I don’t know about style mistakes.”

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99. “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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100. “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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