The Weeknd Quotes
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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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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 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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The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.
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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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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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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 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 think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
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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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'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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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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When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.
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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.
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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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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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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
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I'm a studio rat.
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I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.
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I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
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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.