If you tell somebody that you make music they’re all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would’ve taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I’d continued rapping all the way.
BRENT FAIYAZWe’re products of this world we were born into. We all battle our own demons. Everyone is troubled in the dark, but, please just stop & think about the babies. They’re gonna be here long after we leave.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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The first couple of times I went out and heard my voice or heard people listening when I wasn’t the one playing it for them, it felt good.
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Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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If I feel like making something, if I feel like saying something on the track, that’s what I am going to do – regardless of reaction.
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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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There’s the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there’s the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there’s that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.
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I feel you gotta be nervous. If you’re nervous, it’s just ’cause you want to do well, it’s not ’cause you’re scared.
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If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that’s going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.
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I mean, I wasn’t the best student in school. It would be different if I were to pursue music while I was already in school and doing things for my parents to be proud of and music was a side thing. Being that I dropped everything to do music, they was not with it.
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I think if you’re an interesting person, you don’t have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.
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I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question the motive. No one knows you the way you do.
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Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that’s kind of how I realized I could sing.
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