Shawn Mendes Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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I deferred for a year and toured full time. Whereas, when I was touring before that, I was hopping in and out of high school. At the end of the deferment year, I felt I was already on my path in life and it felt more natural.
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As I'm growing, so is my music.
