The Weeknd Quotes
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When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
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It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
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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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I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
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I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'
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I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy.
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I want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.
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The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.
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I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.
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I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
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Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
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I'm a studio rat.
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All I do is make music.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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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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I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
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Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.
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Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
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I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
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My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
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If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.
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When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.