Top 25 Brent Faiyaz Quotes

I don’t wake up thinking about the genre of R&B as a whole. I just make music.

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.

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.

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

In order for people to take what you say seriously, they have to know who you are as a person.

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.

I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.

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.

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.

Don’t stop until you get where you’re trying to go.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sonder is the realization that every individual passerby has their own life just as vivid and complex as yours.

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.

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.

My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.

I want to own my masters. That’s the main thing–owning all my music.

I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.

I think it’s good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.