Albums Quote by Kerry King

Touring definitely helps sell albums. Things have changed. I've noticed now more than ever when you market an album, get radio play/video play etc.…

— Classified

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have…

— Kerry King

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

— Levon Helm

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

— Martin Gore

I never thought I would be on the tour or that people would want to talk about my album. It was never about that.

— Rod Wave

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of…

— Ed O'Brien

I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.

— John 5

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you…

— Britt Daniel

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's…

— Vivian Campbell

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

— Stephan Jenkins

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think…

— Zachary Cole Smith

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

— John Darnielle