Bruno Mars is an American singer, musician, and artist who was born in Hawaii.
He is not only one of the highest-paid singers in the industry but also a great inspirational artist. Here is a collection of Bruno Mars quotes concerning honesty, friends, imagination, writing, and inspiration.
Bruno Mars Quotes On Music
The following is a collection of quotes from the singer, Bruno Mars about the music industry and its challenges.
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“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.”
“To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.”
“Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson.”
“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.”
“You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence!”
“I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.”
“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.”
“Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.”
“My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.”
“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.”
“In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drives it home.”
“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 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.”
“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 got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.”
“It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created.”
“I'm hoping that 'Nothin' On You', ‘Billionaire’ and ‘Just The Way You Are’ - songs that I produced... I hope that it's a warning for people. I hope it lets them know that I'm a little unorthodox when it comes to genres and styles.”
“Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.”
“That's what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully relatable.”
Bruno Mars Quotes On Passion And Life
Check out this list of the most inspirational Bruno Mars quotes about life, love, imagination, passion, and achievement.
“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.”
“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same.”
“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 am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.”
“I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.”
-'When I Was Your Man', 2012.
“Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.”
“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 gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.”
“Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.”
“You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.”
“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 have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it.”
“I want a woman to love me for me and not just for my piggly diggly...You catch my drift?”
- May 1, 2012, @BrunoMars.
“You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.”
“When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.”
“I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I'd do it. Love makes you stupid.”
“If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.”
“My goals are – I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun.”
“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.”
“Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted. I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life.”
“I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.”
“I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.”
Best Bruno Mars Quotes
Look at the following best and most popular quotes of the singer, musician, and songwriter, Bruno Mars.
“I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man.”
“Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out.”
“I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.”
“There are no record companies in Waikiki.”
“I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.”
“I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.”
“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.”
“Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.”
“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.”
“Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
“Bruno Mars I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.”
“I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.”
“And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!”
“Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame – it's what people in the limelight have to do.”
“And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When it's your time, it is your time.”
“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 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 grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.”
“In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.”
“I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.”
Bruno Mars Quotes From His Songs
The following Bruno Mars quotes are from the lyrics of his most well-known songs, including 'Talking To The Moon'.
“Pretty girl, pretty girl, pretty girl / You should be smiling (you should be smiling) / A girl like you should never look so blue (blue)”
- 'Treasure', 2012.
“Never had much faith in love or miracles (Ooh) / Never wanna put my heart on the line (Ooh)”
- 'Locked Out Of Heaven', 2012.
“My pride, my ego, my needs, and my selfish ways / Caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life”
- 'When I was Your Man', 2012.
“Let's take our time tonight, girl / Above us all the stars are watchin' / There's no place I'd rather be in this world”
- 'Versace on the Floor', 2016.
“I ain't playin' no games / Every word that I say is coming straight from the heart”
- 'Leave The Door Open', 2021.
“Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty”
- 'Uptown Funk', 2014.
“You know you can make my wish come true / If you let me treasure you”
- 'Treasure', 2012.
“When I compliment her, she won't believe me / And it's so, it's so sad to think that she don't see what I see”
- 'Just the Way You Are', 2010.
