Pharrell Williams Quotes

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I like any music I can feel.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.