Top 40 Bruno Mars Quotes

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‘You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.’ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

I’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‘You Are So Beautiful’ and Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’ – songs that go straight to the point.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‘It sounds good!’ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I’m the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‘Redemption Song’ to ‘Is This Love?’ and ‘I Shot the Sheriff.’

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.