Album Quote by Nuno Bettencourt

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching…

— Bat for Lashes

I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so…

— Shaggy

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

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We…

— Michael Stipe

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

— Serj Tankian

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

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

— James Surowiecki

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a…

— Beck

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on…

— Avril Lavigne

I've seen too many people who have been artists for a long time, on that cycle of record-promote-tour, and you look up and 10…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

— Shaggy

I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It…

— Washed Out