Bruno Mars
9 quotes
Biography
"I think that success is having fun."
"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.' That was disgusting to me, because I'm not trying to be a circus act."
"I listen to a lot of music, and I want to have the freedom and luxury to walk into a studio and say, 'Today I want to do a hip-hop, R&B, soul or rock record.'"
"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."
"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."
"Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there."
"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."
"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."
"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."