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When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.

Brent Faiyaz

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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Album Concept Live Myself Observation Window
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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Age Music Time Toys
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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Complex Life Realization Yourself
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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Party Place Stay
I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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Music Myself Thinking Wake Up
I’d prefer for people to know that they’re going to get some substance when they listen to my music versus hearing the same ‘Oooh baby, I love you.’
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Feeling Music People Substance
When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Initial Kind Music Yourself
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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Extrovert Introvert Music Myself Perspective Writing
I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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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Change Culture Game Love People Rare Time Yourself
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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Couple Goodness Myself Play Time Voice
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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Dog Eat Exercise Healthy Reflection Work
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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Feeling Myself Reaction Track
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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Fear Feeling Nervous Scare Yourself
I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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City Different Myself Session Work
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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Invitation Learning Motivation Purpose Question Serve Yourself

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