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.
BRENT FAIYAZYou 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.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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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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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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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 could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
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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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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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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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Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that’s kind of how I realized I could sing.
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I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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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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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 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 2018, nothing is sacred. Everyone is everywhere and knows everybody. I don’t text too personal because somebody might screenshot it and share it.
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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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