Bruno Mars Quotes
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'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
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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.
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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.
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I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
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I think that success is having fun.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
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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.
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I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
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I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
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I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.
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Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
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I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.
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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.
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I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.
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I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.
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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.