Top 151 Quotes & Sayings by Shawn Mendes
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Shawn Mendes.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.
John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.
Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.
Ryan Tedder is just a beast.
I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.
My advice to anyone with a dream is to never stop pursuing it.
The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'
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.
Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.
The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.
I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as I am.
I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.
I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.
Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it's subtle and great to wear for any person at any time.
I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.
I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It's a great place to be. It's like you are in a little bit of a dream world.
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.
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.
I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.
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.
I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing onstage, or fun can be sitting in a room with three of your best friends talking for two hours.
I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer.
I think anyone can do anything they dream of if they put their mind to it and put in the work.
I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.
Every time I write a song my approach changes.
There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago.
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
I'm not a rapper.
I work out every day.
Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.
I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
Manuka honey is magic.
You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.
There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
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.
To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
I like funny girls.
If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.
I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
I've always been really tall and lanky.
There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.
I started watching YouTube videos and singing, and it became something that I was obsessed with.
People made fun of my skinny legs.
I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.
My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
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