Touring Quotes

• I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.

  

  Daughn Gibson
  • People
  • Small
  • Growing

• 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

• That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Brain
  • Fantasy
  • Studio

• Touring isn't traveling. Everyone should know that. And I would absolutely recommend a month of solo touring - that is, no driver, no merch person, no tour manager - to anyone in the position to do such a thing. But just once. You grow a lot in those situations, like when you spend a Christmas alone (which I also recommend). But, again, only once. That will be enough.

  

  James Jackson Toth
  • Traveling
  • Touring
  • Recommend

• With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Records
  • God's Help
  • Brain Damaged

• 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.

  

  Ari Hest
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Touring

• I could quite settle back in to this touring lark. I'd forgotten for a moment how dumb and vaguely repetitious it can be. And surprisingly fun at times. Richmond VA tonight and tomorrow I think it's Charlotte NC but I might have to check on that before I end up in the wrong city.

  

  Wreckless Eric
  • City
  • Moment
  • Touring

• It's impossible to predict the future, but my hope is to continue recording, releasing and touring.

  

  Chris Murray
  • Hope
  • Impossible
  • Recording

• Touring is a rough thing. You don't have any time to look around or stop and think if what you're doing is making you happy. The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.

  

  Adam Granduciel
  • Survive
  • Traveling
  • Touring

• We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Stones
  • Iron
  • Human machine

• Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • My Life
  • I Love
  • Experiment

• I think it's very easy to get lost in the idea of touring and forget that your body is not a machine and can only function if you treat it with love.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Function
  • Only
  • Machine

• Actually, one of the things I enjoy about touring is going round and meeting people from all walks of life.

  

  Jon Poole Cardiacs
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Touring

• When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Busy
  • Touring
  • Normal Life

• When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Albums
  • Forced
  • Peacock

• When you're 17, touring is fun.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Fun
  • Touring

• Maybe I'm just a freak of nature, but I like every aspect of touring. I like it when you play amazing shows and everyone's in high spirits, I like hating everything and wanting to be alone, I like the days that are boring and there's nothing to do, I love the time wasted. I love everything about it.

  

  Ahmed Gallab
  • Like
  • Shows
  • Touring

• Touring is very tough.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Tough
  • Touring

• Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Work
  • Band
  • Touring

• Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

  

  Classified
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Internet

• I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.

  

  Morfydd Clark
  • Celebrity
  • Means
  • Therefore

• I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • I Love
  • Performing
  • Despite

• When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • America
  • Europe
  • Touring

• I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.

  

  Ahmed Gallab
  • Thing
  • Favorite
  • Touring

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