I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
BRENT FAIYAZIf you tell somebody that you make music they’re all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would’ve taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I’d continued rapping all the way.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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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 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’ll listen to certain things that I made back then, and I’m like, ‘I wish I could have done this, I would’ve done that’. When you start out making music, you just want to make something that people will like.
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My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
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If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.
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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 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 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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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
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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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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 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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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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