50 Quotes by Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran, a British singer-songwriter, has captured hearts worldwide with his soulful voice, heartfelt lyrics, and ability to create music that resonates on a deeply personal level. Rising from humble beginnings as a street performer to becoming one of the best-selling artists of his generation, Sheeran's success is a testament to his genuine talent and relentless dedication. His songs, often rooted in his own experiences, cover themes of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery, forging a strong connection with his audience.

Sheeran's ability to craft memorable melodies and lyrics that touch on universal emotions has made him a favorite across diverse musical genres. Beyond his musical achievements, he is known for his philanthropic efforts and down-to-earth personality, which have further endeared him to fans around the world.

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Ed Sheeran Quotes


Negativity isn't the way to go, smile more, eat some chocolate

Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life.

People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan.

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile. Always appreciate things, because they could be gone tomorrow.

Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

The worst things in life comes free to us

Be a true Heart, not a follower.

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

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Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

No one else is going to do it for you, if you want it bad enough then go out and do it yourself.

I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet

Harry Potter is awesome.

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

Kiss me like you want to be loved.

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together.

I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

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Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

Never be friends with your exes if you weren't friends with them before.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

And you should never cut your hair 'cos I love the way you flick it off your shoulders

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

The main idea of it was to multiply everything, to have a bigger sound and grow venue size and grow fan base. As for a lyrical theme of the album [named "X"], it's just diary entries; it's just kind of like three years of my life in songs.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

I'm always doing something before I'm going to them. For instance, I was doing a show the night before this one. I never really think about it too much because it's always in the middle of a lot of things.

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess, it means, have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just kind of like the facts of life; the practice makes perfect thing. Keep your fingers crossed, start from the bottom and work your way up.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit

Why didn't kill me it never made me stronger at all.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made.

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

Without you to hold i'll be freezing.

I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was the first award he's ever won.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.

― Ed Sheeran Quotes

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