will.i.am Quotes

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

Music is such an important part of my life.

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. 'Wrecking Ball' is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.