Top 66 will.i.am Quotes

Code writers, they are my idols.

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don’t do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don’t want to be one.

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.

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

I don’t dream to be like mega crazy rich.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

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.

There’s only one type of music and that’s good music, no matter what genre it is.

I don’t know what silence sounds like anymore.

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family’s life but change your ghetto’s life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

How about no one’s ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There’s no more record stores. With no more record stores there’s no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there’s no more charts.

I’d like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there’s some factory there, and it’s abandoned, and I’d like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

I’m good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it’s not a box to begin with.

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

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.

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it’s all guys. The girls, they’re being left behind.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

I can’t be quiet, as that’s when I notice the ringing in my ears.

When I got into junior high school, that’s when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time – everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It’s just all about business.

I’ve got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.

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

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

My mom’s never been married. I’ve never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

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.’

I don’t want to preach to people.

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.

There’s an entry point to any relationship.

My mom’s discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn’t change a thing.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

I have ADHD. I’ll admit it.

When you follow your heart, you’re never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

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.

I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

Here’s the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone’s going to profit from it, more than you control it.

I’m fascinated with quantum physics.

I don’t like politics.

My attention span is very short.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you’re not going to want to keep it to yourself. You’re going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

If my mind’s not trying to fix something or create something, I don’t know what to do. It just throws me off.

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.

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

Now that Obama’s president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

Every single song that I’ve listened to is in my memory forever.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

I’m like a mama’s boy and stuff.

Romantic love is painful.

I don’t have political agendas. I have social agendas.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone’s included, otherwise you’re just going to have more of the same in the future.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There’s a whole other world out there, but most Americans – all they know is America, the marketing plan.

I don’t need anyone to validate me.

Philanthropy is my job.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

I’ve been truly protected by my uncles.