Top 100 Will.i.am Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
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#3. I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
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#4. 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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#5. America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
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#6. 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.
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#7. I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
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#12. If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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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#16. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
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#17. 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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#18. 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.
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#19. Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it
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#20. I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
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#21. 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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#22. My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.
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#23. Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
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#24. 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.
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#26. 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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#28. The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do,
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#29. My attention span is very short.
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#30. I just like seeing kids inspired.
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#32. I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.
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#36. Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.
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#37. My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.
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#38. I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.
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#40. If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
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#41. Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
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#42. I can procrastinate a little bit.
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#43. 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.
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#44. If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
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#45. Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
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#47. Don't be afraid of the dark
Look inside
Grab your heart
Let it shine
If it's dark outside
Shine your light
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#48. I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.
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#49. I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
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#50. 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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#52. There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.
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#53. Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
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#54. I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.
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#55. If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
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#57. 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.
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#58. We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
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#59. It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
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#60. 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.
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#61. If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
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#62. Waste is only waste if we waste it.
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#63. There's an entry point to any relationship.
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#64. We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
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#65. There are no problems that can't be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can't solve the #problem, it's because you haven't found the right option ... But the answer is always there.
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#66. If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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#67. If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
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#68. Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Great coders are today's rock stars.
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#71. But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
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#72. I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
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#73. I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality ...
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#74. 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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#75. I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
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#76. I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'
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#77. I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
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#78. 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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#79. Things don't have to end. They can begin again.
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#80. I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
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#81. The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.
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#82. It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
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#83. 'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.
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#84. I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
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#87. You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.
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#88. When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
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#89. I can't sing "I Believe I Can Fly". I sing that horrible. But I can sing "I Gotta Feeling" good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.
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#90. 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.
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#91. It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.
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#92. 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.
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#93. There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
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#94. As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education ... that's the thing that worries me.
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#95. 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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#96. I've been truly protected by my uncles.
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
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#100. I don't need anyone to validate me.
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