The Weeknd
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic... DAVID GUETTA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it's ju... NE-YO BABYFACE I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop,... NAYVADIUS CASH I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with... TROYE SIVAN I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed o... JAMES IHA LADY GAGA About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN KEHLANI SARAH J. MAAS BABYFACE Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee... MARVIN SAPP ARLO GUTHRIE BILL CLEGG PRINCE BRYSON TILLER RICK RIORDAN NICK FROST ERIC BURDON Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS LUCAN LUCAN If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder... RONNIE WOOD It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca... LIONEL RICHIE I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What a... LUIS FONSI CHANDLER RIGGS I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even ... THOM YORKE People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk abo... GALLANT Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."GORDON KORMAN There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired. BEN FOLDS POST MALONE I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing trac... AUTRE NE VEUT Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or ca... KELIS SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA EDDIE VAN HALEN I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th... COCO LEE JOHN LEGEND If you're in pop music, you've got to deal with the changing of the guard every few years. B... PAUL ANKA When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen... DAN HILL MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various... ANDY ROURKE BONO When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too exc... KARA DIOGUARDI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop.... KREAYSHAWN Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu... PAUL EPWORTH Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came a... MAYA BEISER PRINCE The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c... FORREST KLINE GERARD WAY Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove... CHUCK EDDY WASHED OUT There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno... CARLISLE FLOYD MAC MILLER BOB DYLAN YANNI SARAH J. MAAS Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g... ADAM LAMBERT ROMY MADLEY CROFT Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can'... KRISTIN HERSH BETSY HODGES DR. DRE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES ROBERT SMITH DEBI MAZAR J. D. SOUTHER SETH ROGEN JON SECADA PETE TOWNSHEND JACKIE EVANCHO A lot of kids have parents who say, 'Music is hard; maybe you should come up with a Plan B.'... GERALD CLAYTON TEDDY THOMPSON My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a... BARRY MANN QUINCY JONES We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to se... ISAAC HANSON JANE MCGONIGAL BECKY G DAVID SANBORN AIMEE MANN When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne... CASSADEE POPE Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, a... GARY CALAMAR It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and p... GRIMES MICHAEL STIPE
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THE HIPPIE Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. THE SCRIPT It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I wasTHE HIPPIE THE TALMUD Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"THE SCRIPT All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o... THE TRUTH The caterpillar turns to liquid before turning into a butterfly. Liquid. Thus washing away any speck... THE HIPPIE THE TALMUD THE TALMUD Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. THE DHAMMAPADA She's leaving home after living alone for so many years. THE BEATLES THE TALMUD THE TALMUD If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one spe... THE DHAMMAPADA THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. THE MISHNAH Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN We played great, ... it's just Hilton Head is tough. THE EAGLES Please don't wake me, no don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping THE BEATLES Just for the record, we never broke up. We just took a fourtee year vacation. THE EAGLES This is the only way we can deal with it, ... We have to be proactive. THE JERUSALEM THE TALMUD Both teams kept it close to the vest, THE EAGLES I don't want to paint myself into a corner,'' he said. THE ARCHIVES THE TALMUD they felt it wasn't egalitarian enough. THE JERUSALEM Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like... THE DHAMMAPADA Grace is great because of his grave. THE INSPIRATIONIST Out of the grave, we are brave to receive grace. THE INSPIRATIONIST Day In the Life THE BEATLES Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ... THE EDGE THE TALMUD defending the religious freedom of Christians. THE FOUNDATION City girls just seem to find out earlyHow to open doors with just a smile. THE EAGLES Time passes and you must move onHalf the distance takes you twice as longSo you keep on singing for ... THE EAGLES You can see the stars and still not see the light. THE EAGLES THE TALMUD THE BIBLE I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN not-so-subtle reminder that there was creativity before silicon chips. Creativity doesn't live in ma... THE COMMITTEE No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own. THE DHAMAPADA THE TALMUD But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun THE BEATLES The moment of impact. The moment of impact proves potential for change. Has ripples effects far beyo... THE VOW THE TALMUD because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole... THE BRAVERY the only town in the United States of that name! THE BRAVERY We are anticipating a good number of people will be applying for permits, so we want to make sure we... THE BRAVERY Well, once again, my friend we find that science is a two-headed beast. One head is nice, it gives u... THE TICK Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. THE BEATLES I and other rabbis are considering putting a cherem [ban] on any Jew that desecrates mosques or othe... THE JERUSALEM feels fine. It just got tweaked. They wanted to take precautions. We had a good cushion, so they jus... THE VIKINGS The question of Jerusalem has broad implications for the Islamic world, ... If we can reach agreemen... THE JERUSALEM [On Monday, Specter said it was] vindictive and inappropriate ... not a supporter of Terrell Owens. THE EAGLES You better have your chin-strap buckled, because they'll knock your head off. THE VIKINGS All that lives will press palms together in prayerful adoration of those who refuse to slaughter and... THE TIRUKURAL THE TALMUD That's not what I'd call condemnation, THE JERUSALEM Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica... THE EDGE THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD THE TALMUD We've always tried to do different things with the sound of the band, but with this record we've tri... THE EDGE should grow in proportion to increases in corporate profitability. THE COMMITTEE THE TALMUD Alice's Restaurant Massacre. THE BEATLES Please stop crying all the time for a particular thing you need, because what you have now someone n... THE INSPIRATIONIST It's good to have MONEY and the things that money can buy, as long as you make sure you don't lose t... THE INSPIRATIONIST How are you doing? How are you going to cope? THE ARCHIVES Your rat is dead THE TERMINATOR That's where I got the idea, because he's so heady, ... He's got a good arm, but he's not necessaril... THE EAGLES Playing three matches back-to-back can be a grueling task, but these players seemed to get stronger ... THE EAGLES I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at. THE HELP I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,... THE HELP You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very ... THE EDGE Til I Can Make It on My Own. THE BEATLES
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a... 
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of musi... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&... 
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to... 
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... 
In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ... 
'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go... 
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... 
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... 
I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind ... 
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the b... 
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. 
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that. 
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in... 
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. 
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. 
Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i... 
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a par... 
I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... 
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou... 
I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and ... 
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am... 
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you ... 
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music.... 
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify mus... 
I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and... 
I do love brash pop music. It's fun. 
I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain&#... 
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... 
When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the ... 
My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into be... 
In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of... 
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'... 
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I'v... 
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our... 
The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I... 
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... 
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ... 
When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and p... 
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and ... 
I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's... 
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug... 
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ... 
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha... 
I'm the most boring person to talk to. 
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica... 
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. 
He who promises runs in debt. 
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ... 
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc... 
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. 
This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj... 