Bryan Adams Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I like the idea of helping people help people. — Bryan Adams

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.' — Bryan Adams

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. — Bryan Adams

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 — Bryan Adams

If you love animals, don't eat them. — Bryan Adams

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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

With few words, one can speak the truth. — Bryan Adams

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

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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

I pack every minute I can with something to do. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

It's a new world, it's a new start
It's alive with the beating of young hearts
It's a new day, it's a new plan
I've been waiting for you
Here I am
Here I am — Bryan Adams

Can you lose everything, you ever had planned?
Can you sit down again, and play another hand?
Could you risk everything, for the chance of being alone?
Under pressure find the grace, or would you come undone?
That's how legends are made, at least that's what they say? — Bryan Adams

I think all my videos suck. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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.' — Bryan Adams

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

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 — Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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? — Bryan Adams

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

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. — Bryan Adams

I never had a long-term plan. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

I swear, I wanna be your underwear. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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 — Bryan Adams

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

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 ... — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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? — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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 — Bryan Adams

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

Focus on your music and not technology. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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. — Bryan Adams

I need to be able to rock out. — Bryan Adams

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

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

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

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. — Bryan Adams

My father's a character. — Bryan Adams

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

I'm a complete and utter busker. — Bryan Adams

I grew up with British rock. — Bryan Adams

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

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. — Bryan Adams

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