Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

will.i.am

Now

People

Back

Related Quotes:

" There's an entry point to any relationship. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have ADHD. I'll admit it. "

will.i.am

Admit

" I don't follow waves or trends or emotions. "

will.i.am

Trends

Emotions

" 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. "

will.i.am

Through

Package

" 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. "

" There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right. "

" If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block. "

" When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same. "

" 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. "

" My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it. "

" I don't despise people. "

will.i.am

Despise

People

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

will.i.am

Therapy

Music

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

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

" There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education. "

" I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like politics. "

will.i.am

Politics

" 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? "

" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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 Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. "

" Philanthropy is my job. "

will.i.am

Job

Philanthropy

" Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact. "

" 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. "

" Tom Jones is like igloo-cool. "

will.i.am

Tom