The Weeknd Quotes
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The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.
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I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.
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When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
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My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.
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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
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'Kiss Land' is like a horror movie.
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For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.
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I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?
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I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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I'm mainstream.
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Music is like film to me.
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Marriage is scary to me, man.
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All of my music is honest.
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My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
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You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.
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Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.
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'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.
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From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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All I do is make music.
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.