Quotes About Touring

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with training and stuff like that, and he's shown me a lot of things I can do on the road. We were trying to figure out something that I can do everywhere, like in my hotel room, so I don't have to have a gym.

Of course one can't eat in a civilized fashion while touring in theatres. But I still manage to get my three meals a day. I find that is sufficient for training.

I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.

We are big fans of 'Candy Crush.' While we are on tour, we spend a lot of time in transit and in hotel rooms, which is when we tend to play the most.

It's a really interesting situation, because when you make music at home all the energy goes into the process, and touring's all about the energy going outward. I had to learn how to do that transition, but once I figured that out it's so much fun.

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.

I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.

We'd pull into a town," Haynes said, "and we didn't know where the clubs were. We'd literally pull over somebody and say, 'Hey, where do the queers hang out? Where's the college area?

The stage show grew gradually until one day they realized that all the props and special effects took up more space in the van than the instruments.

The best Haynes could do was line up perhaps a week of shows, a month in advance. So the band was never sure what the next few months would hold. They'd simply aim for parts of the country where they hadn't been and hope for the best.

they weren't kids anymore—they were pushing thirty; even more important, Lunsford had become a proud papa in 1990. "I had to say, 'What are my primary commitments?' " he says. "Being in a seriously touring rock & roll band is difficult to do as a parent.

I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.

I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

We love being on tour. It's what we do, what we're all about, and we enjoy doing that more than anything.

I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

I love touring - I don't do it as often as I should.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.