Touring Quotes

• 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?

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Artist
  • Years
  • motivation

• My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Important
  • Show
  • Favourite

• 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.

  

  Classified
  • Play
  • Shows
  • Changed

• When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of 'Cats.' And I was, like, absolutely silent - which for a 3-year-old never happens - and I turned to her and said, 'I need to do this.' That's when I started my performer journey.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Started
  • Production
  • Performer

• 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.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Work
  • Job
  • Car

• We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Piece
  • Touring

• I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Feel
  • Stuff

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Touring
  • Bob

• 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

• Touring is hard on the body.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Body
  • Hard
  • Touring

• When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Touring

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