I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
BRENT FAIYAZI 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.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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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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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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I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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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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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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I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
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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 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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As cliche as it sounds, don’t stop. I feel like so often people will have talent or have potential, and they’ll quit because they don’t get anywhere as soon as they want to.
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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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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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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 feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for 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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