52 Terrific Selected Quotes From Brent Faiyaz
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| 52 Terrific Selected Quotes From Brent Faiyaz |
52 Terrific Selected Quotes From Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
— Brent Faiyaz
Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.
— Brent Faiyaz
Don't stop until you get where you're trying to go.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
An outside party don't ever stay outside.
— Brent Faiyaz
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
I don't wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
— Brent Faiyaz
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
In 2018, nothing is sacred. Everyone is everywhere and knows everybody. I don't text too personal because somebody might screenshot it and share it.
— Brent Faiyaz
I work while I'm on the move, so I'm able to book sessions in different cities.
— Brent Faiyaz
I 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.
— Brent Faiyaz
I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren't enough records uplifting them out there.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I'm all for it.
— Brent Faiyaz
I could always sing just playing around, but I ain't want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
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
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what's around me.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.'
— Brent Faiyaz
I'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.
— Brent Faiyaz
I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
I mean, I wasn't the best student in school. It would be different if I were to pursue music while I was already in school and doing things for my parents to be proud of and music was a side thing. Being that I dropped everything to do music, they was not with it.
— Brent Faiyaz
I think it's good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
If it feels good coming out, then I really don't care about anything else, for real. It's all about just having fun with it. If it feels like less work, then the project is coming out better.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that's kind of how I realized I could sing.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
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
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
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.
— Brent Faiyaz
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.
— Brent Faiyaz
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
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
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