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Quotes About Livelihood

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
~ Bob Dylan
I love touring; if it were up to me I'd be touring all the time.
~ Weyes Blood
I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.
~ Liam Gallagher
I love going out and touring, and maybe people understand that it's not about making a quick buck. Maybe that translates.
~ Amy Macdonald
I've been touring now since about '68.
~ Joe Cocker
I have a great time touring.
~ LeAnn Rimes
But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
~ Vanessa Mae
I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.
~ Dick Dale
I just love singing, songwriting and touring.
~ Drake Bell
The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.
~ George Ezra
I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.
~ Ian Gillan
I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.
~ Lemmy
I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that's how I earn a living.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
Well that's probably what'll end up happening: a load of really good musicians who can't afford to be in bands, who have to have day jobs, you know what I mean? And then that's when you start losing a lot of the live touring bands.
~ Jim Root
We love performing, we love touring.
~ Martie Maguire
I really enjoy touring and playing music to people.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
Touring is completely different to me than being in the studio.
~ Bill Ward
I always want to be touring.
~ Gina Schock
I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.
~ Hank Williams Jr.
Tennis is not a contract sport and we really rely on the WTA and ATP tours to be up and running so players can earn prize money to make a living.
~ Bethanie Mattek-Sands
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
~ Quincy Jones
I pay my rent and my bills and I buy food and toys for my dog and that's it.
~ Bria Vinaite
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
~ John Ruskin
I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.
~ Brad Paisley