The Weeknd Quotes
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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 want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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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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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 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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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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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 just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
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I'm a studio rat.
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All I do is make music.
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The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.
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I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
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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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Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.