Life On The Road Quotes

26 quotes from 26 authors

The open highway has always sparked a mix of longing and adventure. Here you’ll find 26 distinct voices—writers, travelers, musicians—each sharing a slice of what it feels like to chase horizons, face solitude, and discover moments of unexpected freedom along the road.

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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

Annie Lennox

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Life on the road not easy. You live in the cold arena, hotel, airport day after day, you get tired, lonely very…

The Iron Sheik

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I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle…

Leonard Cohen

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Dad lived such a hectic, hard life on the road, and I didn't get to spend as much time with him as…

Goldust

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My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Kenny Loggins

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I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Demi Lovato

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I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

Jami Attenberg

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My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.

James Hetfield

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I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things…

Charles Kuralt

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I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my…

David Gilmour

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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can…

Edgar Winter

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You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a…

Julius Erving

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I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning…

Paul Theroux

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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done…

Bruce Dickinson

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I started wrestling when I was 19 years old, and I spent my entire adult life on the road chasing this dream,…

Beth Phoenix

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“Ani DiFranco or Ani, as she is universally know to her fans, was, to a certain kind of white, middle-class woman, girl…

Marisa Meltzer

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It is very hard leaving home for life on the road. The toll that it takes is actually immeasurable, and you can…

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Perhaps the most important contribution to me being centered in the midst of this chaos is my daughter, Krystal Ann. I am…

Yanni

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Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an…

Joe Nichols

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I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's…

Nick Cave

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In the early days I was on the road 45-50 weeks a year, driving from gig to gig 6-8 weeks in a…

Henry Cho

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“Life on the road was just boring. They would land at an airport and take a taxi to the hotel. There they…

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

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I've always eaten out a lot as I live life on the road, so I never conceived of eating anything healthy.

Gregg Wallace

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If you really do live a life on the road it completely changes you as a musician.

Jack Savoretti

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Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

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I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.

Passenger

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