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I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#doing #every #hit #i #knew

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#musician #perform #signed #sing #up

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#blows #incredible #keep #math #mixing

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. ↗

— Diana Ross

#get #give #golden #got #happen

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#away #based #conceptual #criteria #down

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#high #hurdles #i #switched #used

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#fans #handful #haters #pick #some

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#guy #i #screams #smash #song

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#came #coltrane #day #few #groups