Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
BRENT FAIYAZYou 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.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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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 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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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 really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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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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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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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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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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In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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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 was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
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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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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 don’t really feel the loyalty to any particular genre. To be completely honest, I’m an R&B singer because I’m black and I sing.
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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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