Pharrell Williams Quotes

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

Earth, Wind & Fire was something new. I wanted to bring something innovative to the music. It was out of a desire to create excitement with music that was pleasurable to play and listen to.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

Babymetal's music is kind of - no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, 'What the heck?!'

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be at the forefront to show it's its own art form and just a different way to have a band. Only we just use our voices.

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.

All the sounds that I make, I want to make sure there are new stuff. I don't want to follow anyone's path or anything, I want to create my own sound.

There is a solo on 'Spiders,' albeit a kind of a non-traditional solo, but that's what I love.

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

I want to just change how people look at music and artists.

Our goal is just to put the best music out there possible.

If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.