Flo Rida Quotes

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

I entertain more than just sayin', 'oh that's a female rapper,' or 'oh, that's a rapper,' period.' But, me, I put out music, and when I put it out, I also entertain on Twitter. I entertain on stage. I entertain talking to people.

I want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.