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'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.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

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.

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

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 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

Ive been touring now since about 68.

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.

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

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

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

I love touring, I really do.

When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

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 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.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

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.