Believe Quote by David Berman

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

— Tift Merritt

“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s no longer…

— Jeff Goins

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house,…

— Justin Vernon

Well that's probably what'll end up happening: a load of really good musicians who can't afford to be in bands, who have to have…

— Jim Root

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage…

— Al Jarreau

Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people…

— Jason Mraz

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

— Keith Urban

I think every touring musician sacrifices aspects of their life to do it.

— Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of…

— Nuno Bettencourt

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

— Damien Chazelle

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited…

— Janis Ian

In the past, we never really had that kind of spontaneity on record. When you start touring, you play songs in a certain way…

— Adam Granduciel