Touring Quotes

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

In general I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Touring is hard on the body.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

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

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.

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

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

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.

Ive been touring now since about 68.

Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

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

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

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

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.

[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.

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.

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

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.

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

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

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.

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

Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do.