52 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

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

When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air.

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.

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.