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 FAIYAZI want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
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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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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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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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I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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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 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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I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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I could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
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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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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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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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If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.
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I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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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.
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