American - Musician | October 8, 1985 -
You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.
Bruno Mars
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.'
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I think that success is having fun.
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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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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 wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
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I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.
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