Touring Quotes

• That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Done
  • Years
  • Happens

• Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

  

  Don Brewer
  • Success
  • Foundations
  • Stopping

• We were talking about how we wished we had enjoyed the time, like when we were touring in that little van. We wished we had really taken the time to look around and be happy about where we were. I enjoyed it, but it was always hand in hand with fear and this drive to get to the next levels. I was never looking around so much.

  

  Fabrizio Moretti
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Levels

• 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.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Hard
  • Certain
  • Touring

• I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

  

  will.i.am
  • Made
  • India
  • Russia

• I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.

  

  Robbie Merrill Godsmack
  • Road
  • Playing
  • Recording

• I think what’s really unsettling for me is that for most artists, especially artists that are not pop artists, they can’t stop touring. Literally, they don’t have food if they stop touring. I think most artists wouldn’t mind recorded music being free as long as no one was getting paid for that music.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Artists
  • Touring
  • Recorded

• In 1993, Eleven released their second record, which was self-titled. We began a stretch of touring that included opening for Soundgarden.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Record
  • Touring
  • Released

• I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Reading

• I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Tattoos
  • Hotels
  • Calculations

• It seems strange. We're touring in a bubble, so we don't feel it.

  

  Jonny Buckland Coldplay
  • Strange
  • Touring
  • Bubble

• What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Name
  • Recording

• I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Mean
  • Serious
  • Journey

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

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Want
  • Road

• I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Downtime

• I'm very particular about everything. That goes along with the artwork, and how it's laid out, and every lyric. So it's pretty much all in my hands, which is crazy to be touring and doing that at the same time.

  

  Børns
  • Crazy
  • Particular
  • Touring

• When you're touring and the minute you tell someone that you're from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Tell
  • Jail
  • Jersey

• 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.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • America
  • Years
  • Touring

• You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Interesting
  • Songs
  • Touring

• All our collaborations and touring have been rewarding. I’m open to collaborating with anybody, perhaps some of the younger artists, although I don’t actively pursue such cooperation.

  

  Buck Dharma Blue Öyster Cult
  • Touring
  • Rewarding
  • Collaborations

• I deferred for a year and toured full time. Whereas, when I was touring before that, I was hopping in and out of high school. At the end of the deferment year, I felt I was already on my path in life and it felt more natural.

  

  Anoushka Shankar
  • Path
  • Natural
  • Touring

• Travelling can be tiresome, other than that it's fine. The touring thing, the travelling was always a bit of a drag and it doesn't get any easier.

  

  Andy Gill
  • Touring
  • Drag
  • Travelling

• We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It's hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.

  

  Jean-Philip Grobler
  • Life
  • Touring
  • Encompassing

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