Normani Kordei Quotes

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back. And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

It's why we're actors: to be able to tell the stories that really matter.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.