Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Mabel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish musician Mabel.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Mabel Alabama-Pearl McVey is an English-Swedish singer and songwriter. She had her breakthrough in 2017 with her single "Finders Keepers" which peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart. Her debut studio album High Expectations entered the UK Albums Chart at number three and was certified platinum. It included the UK top 10 singles: "Don't Call Me Up", "Mad Love" and "Boyfriend". She won the Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist in 2020.

Spanish - Musician | Born: February 20, 1996

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I have a lot of energy in general, and I am pretty crazy.

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I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

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Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.

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Youssou N'Dour was really important to me growing up.

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I was a sensitive kid.

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I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.

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I am very much my own person and my own artist.

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I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

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I moved from Stockholm to London, and I didn't want to work with my parents or have them help me in any way, I think just to prove to myself that I have my own talent.

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I'm the biggest Drake fan - my favorite is 'Tuscan Leather' because it's like three songs in one, and for somebody that's obsessed with keys, the outro has the best keys ever.

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I definitely idolised Beyonce growing up.

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Being mainstream is fun.

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It was such a wake-up call going to music school and being one among so many that are really good at singing.

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What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

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I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

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Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.

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I don't want to be all over the place with my style and my music, but I am experimenting.

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Kehlani is so refreshing in terms of R&B.

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All my songs are things that have happened to me.

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I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

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I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.

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It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

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Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?

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I went to Glastonbury when I was 14, and that was really fun.

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My mum is one of my style icons!

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I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.

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I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.

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In the bathroom, having taken my make-up off and opened my eyes, I always think there's a ghost behind me. It feels like there's a weird presence. Maybe it's my brain reacting to me without make-up.

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I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.

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I've been making music since age five.

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Harry Styles threw a cream pie at my face in front of 15,000 people to thank me for the months we spent on the road.

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I really wanted to find my own path.

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I just want to make music that makes people feel good about themselves.

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All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

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My first-ever radio interview was with Annie Mac on Radio 1!

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I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

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I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.

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I'm not embarrassed to say I want to be successful, but only on my terms.

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Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this sense of power in situations that are super male-dominated.

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I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.

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I'm such a control freak that camping, for me, is difficult. I can't be this crazy, carefree person that wears the same outfit for four days.

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I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.

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'Finders Keepers' is guaranteed to create a vibe. If I'm having a difficult show, then I know I've got that song at the end to turn it around, and the phones will come out.

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I found being a teenager quite difficult, actually. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and now, looking back at it, I really wish that I had relaxed and just enjoyed it more.

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I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My mum would sometimes say that it was a beautiful thing, and that it would come in handy when making music - and it's made me a more empathetic person.

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I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

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I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.

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I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but I've also seen a lot of amazing places and been on tour with my parents.

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