The Weeknd Quotes
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I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.
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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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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 be remembered as iconic and different.
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I'm the most boring person to talk to.
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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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Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.
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I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
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All I do is make music.
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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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'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
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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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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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Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
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I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.
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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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OVOXO will always be there.
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The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that's how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it's a totally different story.
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Going home helps the content.
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The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.
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I probably could have toured off 'Trilogy' for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd.
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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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Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.