Top 35 Bruno Mars Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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’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.

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.

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.

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

Honolulu is a melting pot.

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.

‘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 don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

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.

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

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

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

When it’s your time, it is your time.

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

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

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

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

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.