I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
BRENT FAIYAZI got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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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Rapping was kind of hard. It’s so many words. When you sing you can kind of stretch the words out. I didn’t have to write as much as everybody else.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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I know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it’s its own thing. That’s why I went out of my way after ‘Crew’ to not do a bunch of collaborations.
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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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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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I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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