Quotes About Touring

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

If you end up spending more time in the studio than you do on the road, that's not a good balance for me. Because I think when you're in the studio, you need to come off the road and go in the studio and that's when you're applying your best. That's when you've got the best attitude, best energy, all that stuff.

Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.

Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.

I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

I really enjoy working with luthiers, and have a couple of really old Les Pauls and one of my original Strats that I still carry on the road.

Being away from loved ones can be very hard. Taxing. With a tour, you don't know whether you'll see each other in three weeks, three months, or three days.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.