Best 65 quotes of Bryan Adams on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

If you love animals, don't eat them.

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

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

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

I grew up with British rock.

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.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

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'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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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