Bryan Adams Quotes

Focus on your music and not technology.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

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.

I grew up with British rock.

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 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 hear the wind call my name
The sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
To you I'll always return

I know the road is long
But where you are is home
Wherever you stay-I'll find the way
I'll run like the river-I'll follow the sun
I'll fly like an eagle
To where I belong

I can't stand the distance
I can't dream alone
I can't wait to see you-yes I'm on my way home

Now I know it's true
My every road leads to you
And in the hour of darkness,
Your light gets me through

You run like the river-you shine like the sun
Yeah
You fly like an eagle-yeah you are the one
I seen every sunset and with all that I've learned
Oh, it's to you, I will always, always, return

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

If you love animals, don't eat them.

I think all my videos suck.

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.'

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

I need to be able to rock out.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

You'll shoot the moon ... put out the sun ... when you love someone.

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.

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.'

I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.

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'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.

My father's a character.

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

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 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'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

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 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 don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

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 moonlight as a singer.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

So If you're feelin' lonely.. don't
You're the only one I'd ever want
I only wanna make it good
So if I love ya a little more than I should

Please forgive me I know not what I do
Please forgive me I can't stop lovin' you
Don't deny me

This pain I'm going through
Please forgive me
If I need ya like I do
Please believe me
Every word I say is true
Please forgive me I can't stop loving you
Still feels like our best times are together
Feels like the first touch

People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.

And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right ...

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

I like the idea of helping people help people.