If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.
BRENT FAIYAZSonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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I recorded everywhere. I would go to different cities and do a session there for the project. I did sessions in New York and I did sessions in L.A. It was just kind of wherever I was and I felt like cutting a track.
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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 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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I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.
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When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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I could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
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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 want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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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 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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I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I was like, ‘Bet, now I can focus on writing and singing.’
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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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I still got bars, I just use ’em differently. I’d say I’m a better singer than I am a rapper at this point because I’ve been sharpening my sword.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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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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