Bryan Adams Quotes

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Composing is my life blood.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.