Bruno Mars Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Imagination

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2012

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Beautiful, Song, Hawaii

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Honesty, Believe

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Beautiful, Song, Fans

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Home, Blow

• 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. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.thebeijinger.com

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

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Artist

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

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Persons, Sells

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Powerful, People

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

• Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Talking

  "Bruno Mars Talks Super Bowl Show With Ellen". www.usatoday.com. February 10, 2014.

• I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Fun, Play

  Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Years, Waiting

• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Men

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

• 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.'

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Powerful, People

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interiew with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, People, Style

  Source: www.justjared.com

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

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Fun, Writing

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

• 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. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

  Bruno Mars

  Beautiful, Girl, Song

  Source: www.justjared.com

• People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

  Bruno Mars

  Girl, Song, Real

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

• 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.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Heart, Simplicity

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Wish

• I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them you're more than just that one song on the radio that's just playing. And that's what I had to do the first time around; I had to keep going out there and keep performing live.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Going Out, Radio

  "Bruno Mars: A Q&A with the artist about new album 'Unorthodox Jukebox'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.csmonitor.com. December 19, 2012.

• It's dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Writing, Play

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Guy, World

• Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Rocks, Feelings

  "Bruno Mars: A Q&A with the artist about new album 'Unorthodox Jukebox'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.csmonitor.com. December 19, 2012.

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