Quotes About Touring

The first thing that comes to the mind when you are touring South Africa is bouncy wickets. But that is no surety of what kind of pitch you would get in the game.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

I think everyone knows that I'm always the one that's the busiest in Maiden. When we're not touring or recording, I'm still doing loads of Maiden stuff - video editing and god knows what else - so I get a lot less downtime than the others.

As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.

One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn't ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out.

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.

The best part of a MacArthur is having some pressure taken off from touring relentlessly.

I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that's how I earn a living.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.

I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.

You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days.

I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.

My mother is caring and selfless, and really looks after me. When I'm touring, she still picks me up from the airport, no matter what time it is.

So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.

With music there's so many limbs and facets. Video and touring and merchandise and all those little things require attention. They're artist things but I tend to joke around too much with those things.

Even when we were stuck touring, earning $100 a day, I never thought I'd even make it that far.

I know some bands that don't like touring and are able to make a living producing other bands. There are a lot of ways of carving a living out, but it's become tougher and tougher to figure out what that means.

We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.

That's part and parcel of touring England. You have to be very street smart and on your game. If you're not, the media and the ECB will have a field day with you.

Madonna would not have done a 360 deal with us just because of our touring capability. We had to prove to her and others that we have been working on and built a very good execution capacity at Artist Nation.

Jay Z is one of the world's preeminent touring artists.

When I'm not touring I really enjoy the ease of cooking at home.

I wouldn't be out here touring constantly if I didn't hope that my music was going to do something to somebody.