Pharrell Williams Quotes

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Any good music must be an innovation.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

My only passion is music.

Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.