Quotes About Touring

Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

At the end of the touring on Bitte, looking back on all that stuff, I feel really proud of having written that music and of us for having really played awesomely on those tours.

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why else would you be touring the nation in a bus?

I mean, the first two tours that we toured around the world, we were hitting every single bar there was, as you do when you're young and you've got to find out all these things. But it got boring really quick.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

We have done so many tours and played for so many crowds. We know who we are.

I love playing live, but our tours generally last about a year. I could never do this without the understanding and support of my wife. She's also a guitar player, and we knew each other before Dream Theater started touring.

We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.

When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.