will.i.am Quotes

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.

Neanderthals might think differently than we do. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results