Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
BRENT FAIYAZI’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.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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If I’m being honest, I was messing up on every other level in my life growing up – whether it was in school or in my jobs. I was always distracted by my love for music.
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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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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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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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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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In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
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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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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I was like, ‘Bet, now I can focus on writing and singing.’
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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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If 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.
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I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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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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Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
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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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