Touring famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.
-- Alan Jackson -
I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.
-- Andy Partridge -
In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
-- Axl Rose -
I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.
-- Bootsy Collins -
I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
Touring for two years is excruciating.
-- Chester Bennington -
There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.
-- Christina Milian -
I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
-- Cyril Cusack -
Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
-- Daniel Johns -
I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.
-- Dave Lombardo -
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.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
-- Florence Welch -
And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.
-- Fred Durst -
I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
-- Gary Allan -
So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
-- Gavin DeGraw -
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring
-- Glenn Danzig -
Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
-- Ian Anderson -
Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.
-- Jamelia -
In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.
-- Jami Attenberg -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.
-- Julian Casablancas -
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.
-- Julian Lennon -
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.
-- Keith Urban -
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!
-- Kerry King -
My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.
-- Lewis Black -
I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.
-- Liam Gallagher -
I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.
-- Lita Ford -
I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.
-- Louise Jameson -
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
-- Marcus Brigstocke -
Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.
-- Marina and the Diamonds -
The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.
-- Mickey Melchiondo -
Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.
-- Moby -
I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
-- Nate Ruess -
Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way
-- Nelly Furtado -
Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.
-- Ville Valo -
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 -
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 -
I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.
-- Julia Kent -
I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.
-- Ladyhawke -
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.
-- Mac DeMarco -
It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.
-- Robbie Merrill -
Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do.
-- T. Mills -
When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.
-- Ty Herndon -
Touring isn't traveling. Everyone should know that. And I would absolutely recommend a month of solo touring - that is, no driver, no merch person, no tour manager - to anyone in the position to do such a thing. But just once. You grow a lot in those situations, like when you spend a Christmas alone (which I also recommend). But, again, only once. That will be enough.
-- Wooden Wand -
I'm very particular about everything. That goes along with the artwork, and how it's laid out, and every lyric. So it's pretty much all in my hands, which is crazy to be touring and doing that at the same time.
-- BØRNS -
I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
-- Chris Blackwell -
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.
-- Joel Plaskett -
If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
-- John Oates -
If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.
-- John Oates
