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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.

Brent Faiyaz

I was reading Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’. It’s one of my favourites.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Book Death Myself Ourselves Reading
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Album Collection Music Myself Name
I used to think that there was a certain way I had to stick to when it came to R&B, but now I’m saying whatever, the same way these rappers do. I’m bringing that into R&B music.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Genre Music Myself Thinking Way
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Complex Life Realization Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Different Kind Myself Project Record Session Track
People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that’s going to be there forever.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Difference Emotion Expectation Forever Listening People Yourself
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Age Music Time Toys
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Eyes Interest Music Myself Way
I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
BRENT FAIYAZ

City Different Myself Session Work
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Order People Person Serious Yourself
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Accomplishment Break Live Money Old People Sick
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Hard Kind Kindness Myself Sing Word
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Money Myself Thinking Time
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.’
BRENT FAIYAZ

Feeling Music People Substance
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
BRENT FAIYAZ

Master Music Myself Own
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.
BRENT FAIYAZ

InterAction Mirror People Yourself

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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