Quotes by The Weeknd - Page 3

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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
For Example
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I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Hand In Hand
Time Music Always
Visual
Actual
Time Music Long
Just As Much
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I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Idols
School
Singing
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People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Dark
Depressing
Work Always Me
Work Me People
Assume
Channel
Expect
Meet
Super
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Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Changed
Fans
World
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Girl
Music
Artist
Enigmatic
Hot
Ran
Shy
Whole
Music Me People
Me People Shy
Became
Camera
Find
Could
Put
Pictures
Shy People
Trend
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Changed
Music World Me
Anything Else
Music World Your
Catch
Failed
Portrayed
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Admire
Real World
Talent
Therapeutic
Wish
Politics Art Music
Studio
Step
The Real World
Tremendously
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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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Moments
Performing
Parts
Realized
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When Michael (Jackson) died, it felt like part of my family died. I want [my fans] to know that my music is for them and if, god forbid, anything happened [to me], it would be like a piece of them is gone.
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Fans
Gone
Would Be
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For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Awards
Ceremony
My Generation
Bomber
Jacket
Occasion
Replacement
Suit
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Balloons
Different
Expectations
House
Perfect
Song
Special
Versions
Nobody
Before
Year
Deadlines
Least
Making
Picking
Right One
Spent
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'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in - introverted, like David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch.' You didn't know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Chorus
Introverted
Lunch
Naked
Radio
David
Cronenberg
Thoughts
Verse
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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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Expected
Bubble
Diary
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Dark
Explanation
Film
First Time
Heard
Nolan
Scar
Time Believe First Time
Totally
Across
Christopher
Created
Different Story
Joker
Every Time
Mouth
Story
Talks
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Experience
Dark
Different
Mind
Life Moment Your
Life Experience Moment
Grow
Life Experience Mind
Write
Earlier
Hole
Meet
Moment
More People
Point
Relationships
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'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Home
Flight
Japan
Narrative
Ask
Life Me People
Life Home Me
After
Pretty
Chapter
Simply
Foreign
Furthest
My Life
Planet
Second
Story
Takes
Tell
Trilogy
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Cool
Balloons
Cry
Felt
Inspired
Pop Music
Purple
Rain
Twins
Wave
Became
Brought
Doves
Experimental
Pop
Soundtrack
Turned
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'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Setting
Track
Life Work City
Life Work Long
Claustrophobic
Entire Life
Plane
Released
Trilogy
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When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Accents
Stories
Based
Constantly
Different People
Loosely
Lyrically
Met
Relationships
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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.
The Weeknd / Recording Artist
Artist
Hitting
Nerves
Notes
Scared
Sound
Time Good Your
Artists
Hit
Favorite
Time Good Young
He Or She
Screwing
Sing
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