Wiz Khalifa Quotes

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

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

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really hard in film is, you don't. The audience is invisible. And we're sitting there, hoping there's other people out there.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

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

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.