Touring Quotes

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

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

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

I have a great time touring.

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

Touring gets really lonely.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.