Zitat des Tages von Bruno Mars:
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
Honolulu is a melting pot.
You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.
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.
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.
I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.
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.
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
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.
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.
When it's your time, it is your time.
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.
There are no record companies in Waikiki.
Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
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 just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.
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.
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 wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.
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.
My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.
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.'
I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.
I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.
I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.
I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
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.
You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that's what you're gonna get!
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?