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will.i.am, born William James Adams, is an American rapper, music producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Born on March 15, 1975, he is known for his innovative and diverse artistic style in the music industry. will.i.am is a founding member of the popular music group The Black Eyed Peas, which has achieved great success worldwide. In addition to his music career, he has ventured into film and television, and founded his own music production company.

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“Waste is only waste if we waste it.”

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“You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. 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 figured out a way of working with it.”

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“If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.”

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“If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.”

Ifs Want Painter Hanging Out Hackers

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“If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!”

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“If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it.”

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“I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.”

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

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

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

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

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“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.”

Ifs Matter Joy Cooking Chef Cooking For Others

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“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 neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”

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

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“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.”

Ifs Want War Planets Politician Terrorism Outcomes Global Warming

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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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“If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.”

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“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.”

Ifs World Problem Found Answers Havens Solve No Problem

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“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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About the Author

Born: March 15, 1975
Known for: Rapper
Quotes: 123

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