Quotes About Touring

I love going out and touring, and maybe people understand that it's not about making a quick buck. Maybe that translates.

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same - where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.

My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

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

I've been touring now since about '68.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

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

I have a great time touring.

If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing.

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

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.