will.i.am Quotes

I'm so into making music and being behind the scenes. I'm such a visionary person that I don't see myself being the person in front of the camera or the person in front of the mic.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.

I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.

It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

From ad jingles, films, background scores, digital platforms to live concerts, I am open to all kinds of projects where I can showcase my talent.

I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.