I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
BRENT FAIYAZDon’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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I think it was ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.
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Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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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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We’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.
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I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
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My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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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 was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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Being old didn’t seem like an accomplishment. Everyone I knew who was old was like sick or broke. It just didn’t look appealing until I moved to L.A. and started interacting with people who were 50+ and still kicking it, having money, living large.
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I’ve always felt like I was observing everything, like I’m just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning about it, so I made the album about that concept.
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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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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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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don’t even know how to listen to it because you listened to it so many times.
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