Bruno Mars Quotes

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you

Be in control. Know who you are. And don't try to be different just to be different.

It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully relatable.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

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.

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.

When I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're are amazing just the way you are.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

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

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

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

Treasure, that is what you are

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

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

My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

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 think that success is having fun.

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.

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

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

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

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.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

You're amazing, just the way you are.

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.'

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

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?

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights

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.

I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

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

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.

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

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.

I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

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.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

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.