The Weeknd Quotes
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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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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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Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.
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I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.
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I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.
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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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I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
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OVOXO will always be there.
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Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.
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I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.
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The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.
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I'm the most boring person to talk to.
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The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.
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Going home helps the content.
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I have a good team. It's good to have a good team.
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When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'
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I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
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I don't believe in icons.
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Bragging just sounds good, man.
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I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
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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 feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.
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Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.