Quotes by will.i.am

About will.i.am:

William James Adams Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, entrepreneur, actor, musician, record producer, and philanthropist. He is best known as a founding member of the hip hop and pop band The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he has received seven Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Teen Choice Award, two MTV Video Music Awards and three World Music Awards.
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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

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I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

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Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.

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I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'

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Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

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I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.

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There's an entry point to any relationship.

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It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

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Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

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Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

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If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

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Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

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The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

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When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

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Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

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Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

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You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

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Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

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Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetso...

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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

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I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

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Author Bio

  • Namewill.i.am
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • BornMarch 15, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Actor
  • AwardsDaytime Emmy Award