Bryan Adams Quotes

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Music is like a really sacred, awesome thing. That first 45 minutes to two hours that you're on stage spending time with music every night is always really great.

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

I love seeing live music.

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.