Touring Quotes

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.

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

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.

I think touring is hard.

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

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.

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.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

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'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

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?

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

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.

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.

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.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.