People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that’s going to be there forever.
BRENT FAIYAZI probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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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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I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.
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Me and Goldlink have known of each other for a minute and our managers know each other so they set up a studio session. When we got in the studio, we was cool; we’re from the same area so we have a lot in common.
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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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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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If it feels good coming out, then I really don’t care about anything else, for real. It’s all about just having fun with it. If it feels like less work, then the project is coming out better.
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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 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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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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I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I’m working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making ‘Make it Out Alive’ is going to be a reflection of all of that.
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When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
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I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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