Quotes About Tour

#1. If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

Burt Reynolds

#2. I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

David Gilmour

#3. The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.

Madonna Ciccone

#4. I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Christina Perri

#5. I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

Greg Norman

#6. I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

Steve Sabol

#7. Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

LaToya London

#8. We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

Jack Irons

#9. I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

Bill Simmons

#10. Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

#11. I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

Fred Couples

#12. I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. 'This is Greg Norman's orange peel!'

Phil Mickelson

#13. My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly.

Mercedes Lackey

#14. Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

Henry Rollins

#15. It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Robin Trower

#16. The first rule for all women to know and never forget is that Carpathian males do not share their lifemates. Tour brother has much to answer for that this was not drilled into you since birth. It was is job to prepare you for my coming.

Christine Feehan

#17. If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."
Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who was dragging her feet, as they fell in behind Deb. "Are there going to be snacks?" he
asked. "I do my best work with snacks.

Sarah Dessen

#18. I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#19. I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.

Aziz Ansari

#20. I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

Fabio Capello

#21. The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.

Keegan Bradley

#22. I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.

Bruno Mars

#23. The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.

Lee Westwood

#24. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack

#25. That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

Dennis Miller

#26. I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

Shia Labeouf

#27. The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

Harry Shum Jr.

#28. I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

Salman Rushdie

#29. Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

Ian MacKaye

#30. There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

Sam Snead

#31. In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

Dave Barry

#32. I honestly think you're the most insane and infuriating woman I've ever met. I knew from the moment you gave me a tour of my own goddamn apartment that you were a special brand of psycho.

Whitney G.

#33. I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

Matt Cameron

#34. I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.

Jim Carrey

#35. I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

Kat Edmonson

#36. When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

Rene Redzepi

#37. With families, your priorities shift. You're not going to be like, 'Let's go out on tour year-round.' I have kids in school. You have to lay things out.

Drew Lachey

#38. I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.

Justin Vernon

#39. This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

Rick Derringer

#40. I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Henry Rollins

#41. Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

Roy Blount Jr.

#42. Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Fred Couples

#43. My office is my tour bus.

Drake

#44. I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

Magic Johnson

#45. I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

Alex Gaskarth

#46. There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

Margaret Stohl

#47. We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

Nina Blackwood

#48. When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.

Bubba Watson

#49. London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.

Ruth Rendell

#50. Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

Kam Williams

#51. I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

Lance Armstrong

#52. I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

Bob Dylan

#53. Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

Daniel Silva

#54. I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

Skylar Laine

#55. I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

Cole Vosbury

#56. The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

Brian Eno

#57. I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Arsene Wenger

#58. You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.

Gustavo Dudamel

#59. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Peg Bracken

#60. Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.

Zac Farro

#61. A study by the University of Zurich demonstrates a link between attractiveness and endurance performance, showing that successful Tour de France cyclists are judged as more attractive.

Anonymous

#62. My most embarrassing moment was probably when I was on tour and I would throw the mic out of my hand and catch it but one time I dropped it and I felt so stupid. My most exhilarating moment is every time I step on stage to perform.

Shawn Desman

#63. It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

Pauly Shore

#64. I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

Charles Busch

#65. I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.

Pattie Boyd

#66. I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.

Bill Kirchen

#67. In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

Gary McCord

#68. I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.

Boots Riley

#69. It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.

Fred Schneider

#70. Life is not a tour of gas stations.

Tim O'Reilly

#71. It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it.
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]

Don Henley

#72. Bernie Sanders has done a great job of, social media black kids know about him. Young black people progressives know about him. Through barbershops and barbershop tour that we have been on, we hit three barbershops a day. People know about him.

Killer Mike

#73. I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

Burt Ward

#74. Your author has found love to be the full trip, emotionally speaking; the grand tour: fall in love, visit both Heaven and Hell for the price of one.

Tom Robbins

#75. I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

Rita Rudner

#76. During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

Mark Hoppus

#77. The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.

David Lee Roth

#78. For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

Tim Cahill

#79. The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards.

Thalia

#80. I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

David Sedaris

#81. I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

Zooey Deschanel

#82. President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.

Jo Bonner

#83. I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

Wynter Gordon

#84. I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

Barry Eisler

#85. Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.

Trent Reznor

#86. When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.

Ted Leo

#87. You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule.

Greg Norman

#88. To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Laurent Brancowitz

#89. A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid. Please - try not to look away.

Markus Zusak

#90. My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

Kate Voegele

#91. Timmy has no intention of going on the trip. He has never been on a sightseeing tour before and according to him, he is never going on one, end of discussion. Who wants to see a stupid planet called Earth, anyway?

Amanda Dubin

#92. The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip.

Tinashe

#93. We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

Billy Sherwood

#94. I don't think it's possible to skip with a frown on your face ... I'd like to see the world's governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.

Bindi Irwin

#95. If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour ... I'm there.

Tommy Lee

#96. Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

Peter Asher

#97. On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn't keep in touch. They're probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

Craig Ferguson

#98. I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!

Juliana Hatfield

#99. When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

Christina Aguilera

#100. I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

Andy Roddick