Quotes About Touring

#1. Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

John Darnielle

#2. I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

Keanu Reeves

#3. I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race.

Pete Seeger

#4. Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

Vince Staples

#5. When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

Phil Collins

#6. I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Teri Garr

#7. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

Jeff Dunham

#8. When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Charlie Fink

#9. I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Deana Carter

#10. Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Jonny Lang

#11. 'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.

Phillip Phillips

#12. For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.

Kirk Hammett

#13. I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

Jhene Aiko

#14. I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

Beck

#15. Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

Lia Ices

#16. In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

Chuck Mangione

#17. 360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.

Lupe Fiasco

#18. I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith ... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

Stephen Mangan

#19. When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

Christopher Walken

#20. I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

Gary Wright

#21. Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

Moby

#22. I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

Britt Ekland

#23. Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Tommy Shaw

#24. In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.

G-Eazy

#25. It looked, at first sight, like a portable windmill that had been attacked by an enormous insect, and at second sight like a touring torture chamber for an Inquisition that wanted to get out and about a bit and enjoy the fresh air.

Terry Pratchett

#26. The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

Marianne Faithfull

#27. I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Rivers Cuomo

#28. Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

Conrad Sewell

#29. I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Taylor Swift

#30. I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#31. Seriously, what is going to be awesome about touring with the mut of rock, who has hit on me every time I see him? Nothing - that's what.

Samantha Towle

#32. Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

Louise Slaughter

#33. Jeff Beck is probably my favorite and biggest influence on the guitar. Touring with him in 2010 was such a milestone. I used to show up early every day just to hear his sound check, which sometimes lasted an hour.

Gary Hoey

#34. When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

Bradford Cox

#35. Touring definitely helps sell albums. Things have changed. I've noticed now more than ever when you market an album, get radio play/video play etc. it helps sell albums but it helps get more shows.

Classified

#36. Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

Florence Welch

#37. If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

John Oates

#38. Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

B.B. King

#39. I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

Vanessa Carlton

#40. WHY IS MY BATH COLD? Because I, purchaser of sadist shoes, needed to soak after wearing cheese graters on my feet yesterday and then traveling and walking and sitting through meetings and touring facilities and impersonating a pack mule today. 'Twas not meant to be.

Qwen Salsbury

#41. Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

Mick Jagger

#42. My favorite part of touring is when I see girls that I've been talking to on my site and then meeting them in person. I can't believe how well the fans get along together. Everyone just seems to be really cool.

Tyler Hilton

#43. I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.

Leo Kottke

#44. My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

Grace Jones

#45. I love touring Canada, and our Calgary fans are among the roughest and toughest.

Tommy Lee

#46. I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that as an actor who had a humorous sensibility.

Mark Williams

#47. Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

Marina And The Diamonds

#48. I love touring, I really do.

Penelope Keith

#49. But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

Vanessa Mae

#50. When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

Brian May

#51. A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

Joan Jett

#52. We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

Michael Stipe

#53. I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

Paula Cole

#54. You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

Peter Noone

#55. I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

Margaret Cho

#56. Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

Kate Bush

#57. I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

Kim Wilde

#58. I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

Julia Kent

#59. I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

Drake Bell

#60. We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

Daniel Johns

#61. Touring is just the most incredible experience, and whilst I try to share it, there are moments where you feel the only way you can really know is to be there in the moment feelings what you are feeling.

Natalie Gulbis

#62. I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.

Bob Seger

#63. Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative.

Rick Wakeman

#64. The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Vivian Campbell

#65. I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

Michael Franks

#66. I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.

Jewel

#67. I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

Paul McDonald

#68. I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

Adam Young

#69. I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous.

Danny Trejo

#70. Touring allows me to play material that isn't on the album and that they wouldn't be able to hear otherwise. I love it. It's the most legitimate way to acquire and sustain an audience of people who are interested in your music.

Gavin DeGraw

#71. There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

Leo Kottke

#72. George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

Paul McCartney

#73. Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Daniel Johns

#74. Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

Will.i.am

#75. Touring is hard on the body.

Eminem

#76. It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

Kerry King

#77. I have a great time touring.

LeAnn Rimes

#78. I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Cyril Cusack

#79. I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Louise Jameson

#80. I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Suzi Quatro

#81. I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Bryan Ferry

#82. Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring was really limited. I tour more now than I did back then.

Harry Wayne Casey

#83. I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

Andy Partridge

#84. Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Eddy Arnold

#85. I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

Cliff Martinez

#86. When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

Jake Shimabukuro

#87. After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

Jason Schwartzman

#88. The third movement is one of the most moving passages ever written, and I've never listened to it without feeling as if I alone have been lifted up on the shoulders of some giant creature touring the charred landscape of all human feeling.

Nicole Krauss

#89. We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Ron Wood

#90. A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.

Bear Grylls

#91. That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other ... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

Ringo Starr

#92. I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

Andrew Bird

#93. You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

Tift Merritt

#94. But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

Pat Benatar

#95. Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alanis Morissette

#96. I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

Feist

#97. Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do ... stay in the studio.

Al Jourgensen

#98. The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#99. I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

Ted Leo

#100. I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

Alan Jackson