Bruno Mars Quotes

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

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

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

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

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.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

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.

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.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

My dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at.

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.

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

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.

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 could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that I look up to like, you know, Michael, Prince, James Brown. You watch them and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. And they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. They're not phoning it in. They're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. That's what I've watched my whole life and admired.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I think that success is having fun.

You're amazing, just the way you are.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

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.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

I am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

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

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.

Treasure, that is what you are

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.'

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.

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

A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like this." And I'm always like, "You're damn right I am. That's how - that's why we're all here." You know, we all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.