will.i.am quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, will.i.am has a lot to say. In this list we present the 13 best will.i.am quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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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.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
If Apple’s a technology company in the music industry, why can’t somebody in the music industry make technology?
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
Romantic love is painful.
— will.i.am
There’s an entry point to any relationship.
— will.i.am
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.
— will.i.am
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