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67 The Weeknd Quotes To Achieve Remarkable Success While Young
We love seeing stories of remarkable success in a short period of time. It appeals to our sense that success is merely right around the corner. What’s better is someone who came from near-nothing.
The Weeknd represents exactly that. As the son of Ethiopian parents, he struggled in his teenage years with drug abuse and shoplifting only to later discovering the power of his voice.
After launching a song on YouTube, he quickly garnered attention. He was just being himself and creating his own songs which his young fans loved. Needless to say, he became a multi-millionaire soon after in his early 20’s.
So if you’re after some remarkable quotes by The Weeknd, then you’re in the right spot! We have collected these from multiple sources and are currently updated.
1. Be loyal to your own piece of mind.
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2. Can’t believe we’re here. feels like yesterday we were there… but now… we’re here. not there.
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3. I enjoy being a workaholic, I think, or I’m just addicted to it. Even when I’m not working I’m always somehow still working. It distracts from the loneliness, I guess.
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4. I didn’t have a father figure in the house.
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5. Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
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6. Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.
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7. My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.
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8. Baby I’m a pro at letting go, I love it when they come and go.
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9. The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
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10. Look at all that money. The money is the motive.
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11. 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.
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12. Happiness exists when you don’t know a thing.
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13. Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.
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14. I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go on stage, perform, and sing.
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15. When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually.
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16. You’re gonna hate him, then you’ll want me, then you’ll miss him, then you’ll hate me.
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17. In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.
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18. I love villains – they’re the best characters in movies, right? The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past, you just know what his plans are.
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19. I don’t like to leave my house too much. It’s a gift and a curse but it helps me give undivided attention to my work.
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20. For a dreamer, nights the only time of day.
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21. We’ll find our love in the sky.
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22. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
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23. Don’t show the world how alone you’ve become.
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24. I’m always getting high cuz my confidence low.
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25. You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.
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26. I want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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27. I chose the life, then I realized she might have been the one, I let her go for a little fun.
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28. Heaven only lets a few in. It’s too late for me to choose it.
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29. Nothing feels better than going on stage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.
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30. You don’t have to waste your energy.
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31. I don’t care about you, why you worried about me?
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32. Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.
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33. 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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34. Everything I said I’d do I did, I’m good.
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35. So you’re somebody now, but what’s somebody in a nobody town?
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36. Don’t make me make you fall in love.
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37. He’s what you want. I’m what you need.
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38. Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.
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39. I’m the drug in your veins, just fight through the pain.
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40. I ain’t scared of the fall. I’ve felt the ground before.
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41. I went from starin’ at the same four walls for 21 years. To seein’ the whole world in just twelve months.
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42. The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.
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43. I’m so used to being used. So I love when you call unexpected, Cause I hate when the moment is expected.
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44. 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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45. When I’m faded I forget, I forget what you mean to me. I hope you know what you mean to me.
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46. I feel like I spent the last 10 years creating a sound and most of my career, I’ve either been running away from it or duplicating it.
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47. It’s always been in me. I just had to be confident enough to let it out.
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48. 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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49. Music is like film to me.
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50. They say they want heaven; They say they want god. I say I have heaven, I say I am god.
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51. I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
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52. I’m a prisoner to my addiction I’m addicted to a life that’s so empty and so cold I’m a prisoner to my decisions.
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53. 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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54. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
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55. Push it to the limit, push it through the pain.
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56. Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn’t make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.
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57. I’m sorry I was distracted by my lack of giving a shit.
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58. Well here comes the sun, You’re in my arms. my denial keeps me on the edge of the chance that you’ll stay through the night.
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59. The older I got, I was exposed to more music, and my voice became a chameleon going into different characters with each album. By following my own path and breaking industry norms, it seems to be influencing others.
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60. So baby don’t go home, I don’t wanna spend tonight alone.
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61. The only girls that we f*ck with seem to have 20 different pills in ’em.
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62. The music I make on this album is definitely matured. It’s a bit of a different state of mind even though it’s the same person. You grow and you grow and you don’t know what the next album is going to be about. You never know what I’m going to say.
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63. I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.
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64. Kanye needed to be on this album, because I feel like I’m going through what he’s been going through – reinventing himself and pushing the boundaries. And he looks at himself as pop. He says, “I’m a pop artist. You can’t put me in one category.
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65. 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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66. 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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67. Say you’re mine, I’m yours for the night.
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