Shawn Mendes Quotes

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

That's the cool thing that music can do: make you feel this or that way. That's all I've ever wanted to achieve - I'm a music guy, you know? That's my occupation.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Great music is great music, period.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

Everyone deserves music.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.