Touring Quotes

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

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. it helps sell albums but it helps get more shows.

None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

I really don’t work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. It’s really made the touring a lot less grueling.

You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.

Touring with the record out - shows are so much more fun now that n - - s know what I'm talking about.

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

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

The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed.

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring was really limited. I tour more now than I did back then.

The most important part about playing shows and touring, is connecting with fans. At the end of the day it's not really a band and fans, we're all just human beings.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.

I don't actually like touring.

I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.

Touring is exciting, fun and the reason why you want to be in a band.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

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

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

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

INXS’ touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.

There were some things I was going and doing in Europe a little bit. Some festivals that brought me over. That was good. Some touring I did over there. But there was nothing major [from 22 to 29].

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.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.