Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Bryan Adams
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Bryan Adams.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
I think all my videos suck.
I need to be able to rock out.
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'
My father's a character.
There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
I never had a long-term plan.
I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
I grew up with British rock.
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
I moonlight as a singer.
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
I pack every minute I can with something to do.
I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.
I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
Focus on your music and not technology.
I'm a complete and utter busker.
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
I like the idea of helping people help people.
I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.
Oh - once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you're feelin' down
Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me
Oh there's lots that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.
Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.
It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.
Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.
There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.
I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.
Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.
To hate another is to hate yourself.
We all live within the one Universal Mind.
What we think about another, we think about ourselves.
If you have an enemy, forgive him now.
Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve.
You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate.
Show charity and goodwill toward others
and it will return to enhance your own life
in many wonderful ways.
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.
Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.
You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.
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