Top 40 Bruno Mars Quotes

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.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

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.’

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

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

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.

‘Nothin’ on You’ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

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

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.

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

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 know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

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.

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

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

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.

Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I’ve wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It’s all I know.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‘Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.’

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

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

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.

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

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 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.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

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 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.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

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

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

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.