Mabel Quotes

Mabel

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 20, 1996

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 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 think knowing where you came from and where you want to go is really important.

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I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

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I want people to really care when I release an album.

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Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

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Gigs are my favourite thing - even the not so good ones, because you always learn something.

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There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

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I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?

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That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

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I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'

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I can't believe that I'm MTV's Brand New for 2018. Big love to MTV for even giving me this opportunity and to all the fans for voting.

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I think the best thing that I can do is be myself. I don't know about being a role model; I think placing that sort of title on myself is too much. It's trying to be this thing that puts loads of pressure on something.

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I think there is a misconception that being open and honest and saying what it is you want is something we should be embarrassed about. But that's just not me. I am a very honest person. I always tell somebody what I am looking for, and I don't want people to waste my time, basically.

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When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

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I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

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A couple of days out of the month, I talk to my stylist, and we just get a big chunk of looks that'll last me a while.

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When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

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Relationships with cities are similar to relationships with people: being away from both can really make you appreciate what you have.

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I am very much married to the job.

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