Touring Quotes

It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

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

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.

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.

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.

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

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

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.

Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church!

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

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

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

Ive been touring now since about 68.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

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.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

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.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

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.

Touring has been a new part of my life in a lot of ways. We've just been touring massively since the record came out and before. Learning how to write while all that is going on is a new thing.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

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.

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

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.

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

The worst thing about touring is the travel.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.