Bryan Adams Quotations

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

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.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

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.

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

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'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'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.

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 need to be able to rock out.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

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

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

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 like the idea of helping people help people.

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

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

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

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

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 remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

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.

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.

We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.

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.

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.

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.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

My father's a character.

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

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

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

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

And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

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.

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.'

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

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

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

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

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

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Oh - once in your life you find someone Who will turn your world around Bring you up when you're feelin' down Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me Oh there's lots that I could say But just hold me now Cause our love will light the way

If you love animals, don't eat them.

I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

Focus on your music and not technology.

Oh, thinkin' about all our younger years There was only you and me We were young and wild and free Now nothin' can take you away from me We've been down that road before But that's over now You keep me comin' back for more...

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

I never had a long-term plan.

I grew up with British rock.

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

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?

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

When you can see your unborn children in her arms, you know you really love a woman.

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 concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

I think all my videos suck.

I moonlight as a singer.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...

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

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

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

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

There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

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

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

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

I was shocked; I didn't know what it really was. I thought it was a disease you got from eating too much sugar.

I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me ... it is constantly changing.

I didn't have a manager, I didn't have a band, I was just a songwriter. But I needed to get my foot in the door, so I took the dollar.

From what I recollect, the audiences in India are very discerning and know how to appreciate real music.

If the bag had, in fact, contained the explosive device that was anticipated, the bomb could have detonated several times over in the hour that the bag sat there.

Had I started anywhere else but Vancouver I would not be here tonight.

He wants it to be great. He phoned me every day just to check in, to see if there's anything I need. It's great to have someone with that kind of enthusiasm. It makes you work harder.

Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM machine,

Sure it?s motivation, ... You want to do your best and our two main goals every year (are) to win the conference championship and to make that playoffs.

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

I've been probably one of the most boot-legged artists ever. It's just another way of getting music that is wanted by the people to the people and now you can just download from the internet, so it might be different times now for musicians.

The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels. It's exciting because I know we are the first Western artists to come and play a big concert here.

It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.

They just out-hit them, flat out. Nobody was expecting to play. We were goofing off all day. We were goofing off in the dugout before the game.

I'm working on a new album. I've written 30 songs, five of those are good, and three I really love.

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 draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy...but let's set the record straight on something! The Summer of '69 has nothing to do with the actual year 1969. It's about making love (69 - get it?) and looking back at the good old times.