Pharrell Williams People Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Collaborate with people you can learn from

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.

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.