Touring Quotes - page 7

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job. (Janet Jackson)
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence. View quote
James Frey
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' View quote
Moby
Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. View quote
Moby
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question. View quote
Kid Rock
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording. View quote
Roger Taylor
Touring tests your friendships with people & you ability to be with those same people in. View quote
Tomo Milicevic
I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else. View quote
Lewis Black
My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road. View quote
Lewis Black
I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100. View quote
Dolly Parton
I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything. (Tiësto)
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life. View quote
Gloria Estefan
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. View quote
Christopher Walken
Touring for two years is excruciating. View quote
Chester Bennington
My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all. View quote
Taylor Momsen
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now. View quote
Lady Gaga
It's good. You know, it's nice coming out and actually meeting all your fans - you make this thing in your bedroom and you don't really know who is going to get it or relate to it or anything, you know? And you just pour your heart out kind of thing, and then you find out you relate to people and that's the final process of it. You know, to meet people who are actually like you and that you connect with, you know what I mean? That's kind of cool. That's the best thing about touring. View quote
M.I.A.
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. View quote
Anthony Kiedis
I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan. View quote
Kate Moss
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring. (Vanessa Mae)
But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience. View quote
Vanessa Mae
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. View quote
John Mayer
Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live. View quote
Liam Gallagher