Pharrell Williams Quotes

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh to where listeners won't get everything from just one listen. They can go back to it months, weeks, or even years later and hear something that they didn't ever hear before. That's what it's all about.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

I'm always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So it's kind of like the standard rock sound.

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.