will.i.am Quotes

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

'Imperfiction' will forever be one of my favorite records and moments in time.

I like a singalong. And I'm a bit of a sentimentalist for the past myself.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it's on radio or among friends.

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.