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Pharrell Williams quotes (page 5 of 8)
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"I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing."
"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."
"From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request."
"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."
"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."
"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."
"I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great."
"I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it."
"Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up."
"I love what I do, I love my job."
"I love playing. The keyboard is my journal."
"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.""
"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."
"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."
"The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys."
"My style hero was Batman. Now it's Tony Stark."
"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."
"I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn."
"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."