Words matter. These are the best Brent Faiyaz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
An outside party don’t ever stay outside.
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.
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.
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you’re initially making music, you’re kind of just shooting at the air.
I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I’m all for it.
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.’
I really just wanted to make something special for women. There aren’t enough records uplifting them out there.
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.
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.
I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.
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.
I got a toy keyboard when I was around like five or six.
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.
I work while I’m on the move, so I’m able to book sessions in different cities.
Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.
I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.
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.
With the Sonder music, I pull a lot from what’s around me.
