Shawn Mendes Quotes
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At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.
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There are tons of women's perfumes that I've smelt and been like, 'I love that. I would totally wear that,' and lots of women smell a lot of men's cologne and think the same thing about that. I think there should be no reason to put gender on it.
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I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
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I'm tortured because I care.
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I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.
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I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me.
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I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.
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You have to work the crowd.
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I come up with more ideas when I'm on the road, but I don't get to finish them. I don't get to fully flush them out because I'm so busy on the road. I'm very all over the place, but I'm definitely most creative when I'm out here.
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I'm not a rapper.
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It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album.
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I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.
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I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
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I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
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I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.
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I love acting. I would really love to act.
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I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.
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I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
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Sometimes I get more excited for shows that I know are going to be quieter because it gets me more inspired to be more of a showman and be more of an entertainer and forces me to work harder.
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I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.
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I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
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You look back at people like Elvis and The Beatles and still get their music because it's timeless. That's what I want.
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I'll never feel like I've made it.
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I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong.