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 FAIYAZI could always sing just playing around, but I ain’t want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
More Brent Faiyaz Quotes
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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 probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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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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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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Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.
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With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
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I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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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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I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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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’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 know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it’s its own thing. That’s why I went out of my way after ‘Crew’ to not do a bunch of collaborations.
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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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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.
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