The Weeknd Quotes

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

Growing up, we had folk records.

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

I come from a musical kind of family.

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.

Growing up in my household with seven women, I'd hear all types of music.

My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.

I grew up with Ray Charles playing in the car all the time or playing in the house.

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

My first experience with the arts must have been the sound of my mother singing to me when I was in the womb. The sound of my father singing to me when he held me. The sound of The Temptations records that they played.

I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.

I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.