When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
BRENT FAIYAZI 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.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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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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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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Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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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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My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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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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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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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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