Quotes About Touring

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

When I'm touring, everything is so structured and I'm surrounded by people all the time, so I love walking on my own in the open air in the countryside.

When you're touring, you only see the auditorium and the hotel room. You can't go out because you get mobbed. You're tired, edgy and under pressure. The fun had gone out of it, so we decided to walk away from it all.

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

I'm touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can't get jobs. They work for me.

Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

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

I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

I have been fortunate enough to have a diverse career - appearing on TV, touring the country and meeting tons of celebrities, even hanging out with rock stars - and it has been a blast.

Mostly I've just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write - in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening.

I love touring; if it were up to me I'd be touring all the time.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

Touring the world was almost like a side project that got out of control. It's like two incredibly demanding full-time jobs that I'm trying to do at once.

I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.

I don't need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I'm not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.

Touring is hard on the body.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.