La'Porsha Renae Quotes

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

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 do it? It's the communication.

I like music when it makes you feel.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, 'I'm making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,' but it also felt really good because I thought, 'If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.'

People like to be moved, that's why they're here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

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.