Touring Quotes

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

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

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.

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

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.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

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.

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.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

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

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

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

Touring is hard on the body.

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.

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

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.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

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

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.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

I have a great time touring.

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.