Bruno Mars Quotes

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Bruno Mars

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 8, 1985

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.

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I think that success is having fun.

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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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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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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. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

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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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You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

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When it's your time, it is your time.

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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.

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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, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

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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 just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

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

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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.

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You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that's what you're gonna get!

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

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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.

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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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