Top 100 Quotes About Touring
#1. The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.
Nick Mason
#2. Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
Keith Urban
#3. Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
Barry Manilow
#4. I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.
Vonda Shepard
#5. Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.
Nathan Sawaya
#6. I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy
#7. We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
Jack Irons
#8. I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.
Kirk Windstein
#9. I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
Jerry Harrison
#10. After my touring life, I'd love to be more involved with charity. It gives me a lot of fulfillment, you know? I would love to get people who are into my music more active in charity work. In the future, when I have more time, I'd love to do spend more time on that.
Tiesto
#11. When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
Julia Kent
#12. I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.
Daniel Tosh
#13. Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.
LL Cool J
#14. When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.
Mark Kozelek
#15. With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally.
Justin Vernon
#16. I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
Bun E. Carlos
#17. The relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.
Linda Ronstadt
#18. If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.
Courtney Barnett
#19. The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.
Neil Peart
#20. I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
Richie Sambora
#22. That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
Angus Young
#23. Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.
G-Eazy
#26. I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.
Dick Dale
#27. I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
Marcus Brigstocke
#28. It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show ... " I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.
Sharon Van Etten
#29. I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.
Jake Shimabukuro
#30. Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording ... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.
Robin Zander
#31. I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'
Moby
#32. After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
Chad Kroeger
#33. When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it.
Kevin Bleyer
#34. The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.
Julian Casablancas
#35. Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.
Katy Perry
#36. I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
Randy Bachman
#37. The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed.
Garance Dore
#38. I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
Joe Trohman
#39. Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.
Bill Ayers
#40. When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
Diane Lane
#41. A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan
#42. In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
Timothy West
#43. I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.
Kenny G
#44. I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.
Tiesto
#45. I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.
Moby
#46. TALLAHASSEE LASSIE was a record I wrote with my mom. A number of other famous groups have also recorded it such as Led Zeppelin (I understand they are currently touring) and several other English bands and also some various "Punk Bands".
Freddy Cannon
#47. Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Hannibal Buress
#48. There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
Ben Lovett
#49. I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.
Richard C. Armitage
#50. Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.
Classified
#51. At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.
Jon Crosby
#52. Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
Andy Rourke
#53. 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.
Carlos Santana
#54. I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.
John Deacon
#55. I live the most boring life, away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year [not touring], I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid, and I clean the house. I'm pretty boring.
Carrie Underwood
#56. So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
Gavin DeGraw
#57. When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.
Rico Love
#58. We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.
Stjepan Hauser
#59. I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.
Slash
#60. The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.
Duncan Sheik
#61. I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.
Kurt Browning
#62. There's no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we're walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.
Drew Holcomb
#63. I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.
Jim Gaffigan
#64. The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
Adam Ant
#66. I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.
Louise Jameson
#68. The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
Taylor Momsen
#69. I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.
Deborah Cox
#70. What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love.
Christina Perri
#71. I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.
George Strait
#72. When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor -
that, to me, is freedom.
Mitch Lucker
#73. Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
Serj Tankian
#74. Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
Henry Rollins
#75. the manner of Prince Tetrakov, was now touring the room, shaking
Amor Towles
#76. I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It's too hot, and you can't farm. You can't hunt.
Blake Shelton
#77. With the exception of Megadeth, I can't imagine any band we were hesitant about touring with. I mean we liked the original Megadeth, but I can't think of any band we toured with we weren't psyched about.
Reed Mullin
#78. I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.
Lewis Black
#79. I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
Karin Slaughter
#80. Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band ...
Vince Gill
#82. Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.
Bootsy Collins
#83. With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.
Lisa Gerrard
#84. One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.
Squarepusher
#85. There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
Norah Jones
#86. I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.
Conor Oberst
#87. We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
A. J. McLean
#88. Atticus had owned an old canvas-top touring car, and once when he was taking Jem, Henry, and Jean Louise swimming, the car rolled over a particularly bad hump in the road and deposited Jem without.
Harper Lee
#89. Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.
Gloria Estefan
#90. I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
Peter Ustinov
#91. She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. ( ... ), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
Scott Westerfeld
#92. The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes.
Mark Helprin
#93. Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Alessandro Nivola
#94. I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, This is the best way for people to find out about me.
Jen Kirkman
#95. The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
John Darnielle
#96. I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
Joseph Bologna
#97. You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
Bryan Ferry
#99. I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
Gloria Estefan
#100. My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.
Jason Mraz
