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Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
Bruno Mars
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Bruno Mars
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 8
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I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.
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You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it
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My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.
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As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.
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It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully relatable.
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We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.
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A lot of people are really quick to say, That song sounds like this. Or you - He's tryin' to sound like this. And I'm always like, You're damn right I am. That's how - that's why we're all here. You know, we all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.
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Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson
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I felt like I didn't have [any] pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars.
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I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.
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When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it
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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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