Latest Pharrell Williams Quotes from Interviews

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• That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy.

  Pharrell Williams

  Guy, Trying, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

  Pharrell Williams

  Distance, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.

  Pharrell Williams

  Technology, Creative, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

  Pharrell Williams

  Stress, Moving, Style

  Source: theneptunes.org

• More than anything, I wanted to make sure that everybody was a pusher of difference. And they had to be able to do it in a communicative way, not esoterically. Because there are a lot of people who push things forward but sometimes only you and two people out of 500 in the room get it, but you want somebody who has mastered their craft so well that an 8-year-old gets it just like an 80-year-old gets it. They get the same visceral feeling.

  Pharrell Williams

  Years, Two, Differences

  Source: theneptunes.org

• There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

  Pharrell Williams

  Ideas, Generations, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

  Pharrell Williams

  Emotional, Trying, Cry

  Source: www.ebony.com

• For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

  Pharrell Williams

  Children, School, Positivity

  Source: www.ebony.com

• We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we complain about the establishment discriminating against black people, we're going to start seeing that more of us are already in the establishment.

  Pharrell Williams

  Race, Class, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

• The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues.

  Pharrell Williams

  Race, Issues, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

  Pharrell Williams

  Feels

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

  Pharrell Williams

  Artist, Mainstream, I Can

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Country, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Disappointment, Smart, Eye

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Creativity, Important, Loyal

  "Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Defense, Roles, Looks

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Hurt, Pain, Attention

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". "NPR Music on Monday", www.npr.org. October 26, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Hurt, Fall, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Pharrell Williams

  Crazy, Artist, Whole

  "Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Fire, Ubiquity, Way

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, Voice, Space

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Want, Boxes

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". "NPR Music on Monday", www.npr.org. October 26, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Blessed, Lazy, Music Love

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

• 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.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, People, Height

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.