Touring Quotes · Page 8

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

— Neil Peart

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.

— Nuno Bettencourt

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

— Bill Hicks

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we…

— Matt Skiba

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

— Gloria Estefan

There's definitely a love-hate relationship I think a lot of bands have with touring.

— Declan McKenna

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

— Anonymous

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

— Pat Benatar

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all…

— Cher Lloyd

Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people…

— Kate Bush

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

— Elle King

A lot of people don't like touring because it's monotonous and you're waiting around a lot but for me it's great. I'm…

— Alison Mosshart

Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I'm not…

— Jason Isbell

I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that…

— Julia Kent

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…

— BØRNS

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and…

— Robbie Robertson

I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when…

— Trixie Mattel

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out…

— Mike Myers

I've been working with Peaches for a while as far as doing shows, maybe for the past two years. Everyone else seems…

— Cakes da killa

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…

— Lisa Gerrard

By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We…

— Paul Westerberg

I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I…

— Moby

“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need…

— Anonymous

The only way the band could make any money was by going on tour. But going on tour meant we had to…

— Greg Saunier

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

— Elizabeth West

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

— Liam Gallagher

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

— Barry Manilow

Large podcasts have a successful and sustainable business model in live show touring.

— Hank Green

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.

— Moby

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

— Cyril Cusack

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

— Mike Portnoy

Even when we were stuck touring, earning $100 a day, I never thought I'd even make it that far.

— Ryan Ross

“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

— A.M. Homes

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

— Jonathan Frid

Forces pouring, on mixtapes I'm touring. See my shit that fire shit, and yo' shit boring.

— 2 Chainz

I love being on tour; I love being on the road. Its the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I…

— Katerina Graham

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

— Greg LeMond

It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.

— Brendon Urie

“We learn the most about musicianship & our limits whilst globetrotting. Touring is for tough-cookies.”

— Lisa Goldin