The Weeknd Quotes
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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.
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I'm a studio rat.
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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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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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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 wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.
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The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
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Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.
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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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A chorus is not easy.
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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 love trying new things.
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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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Bragging just sounds good, man.
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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 just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
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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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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 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 don't believe in icons.
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My closet is like Bart Simpson's.
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I have a good team. It's good to have a good team.
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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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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.