Wiz Khalifa Quotes
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I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.
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I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
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I started writing songs when I was eight.
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My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
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I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.
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The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.
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I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.
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I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
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'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
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I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
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I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.
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I never got nervous performing my own material.
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My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
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I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.
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I love tattoos.
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.
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I don't take time off.
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The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.
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Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.
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I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
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I don't consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who've been in the game for years... they're like, 'Man, I'm trying to get on your level.'
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I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
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Brand names aren't important to me at all.