Murda Beatz Quotes

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I don't prepare for a live show.

Studio work is very methodical, while live concerts must be very spontaneous.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did. I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.