Bruno Mars Quotes

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

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

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I view making records as a journey.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.