Quotes About Entertainment

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

I'm not a tour rat. I'm not crazy about it.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I'll have another hour of stand-up material where I'll be able to go on the road and tour again.

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

Tour is fun.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Tour,' I was probably the least redneck of everybody.

I'd never been on tour until I met the Rudimental boys. Never done a live show in front of an audience.

My first-ever date on my first tour, the sound completely cut out. So I had to go on and just shout loudly to the audience.

I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roller - it was a damn site more comfortable than most hotels.

Normally, when I write a tour show, it's got a title that means something - a beginning, a middle and an end - and some kind of storyline and ideas going through it over two hours.

The only way I'm going to support my family is to tour. I love playing, don't get me wrong. That 90 minutes every night, that's free. We get paid to travel. But every night, I have to get myself locked in. There are a thousand people that don't want to be disappointed, because they have a lot of expectations.

Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.

I got my own tour bus and every show has been lit.

There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story.

I have toured with the likes of Laxmikant-Pyarelal and performed in places like U.S., Canada, and Europe.

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

Sure I've done some runs and even toured some amazing places around the world, but this is Stone Temple Pilots!

I started a group called Loudpvck, which I do by myself now, and toured the whole world.

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

I started making music that I loved and was passionate and excited about, but it was really cool when I started touring to realize it's an extremely diverse group of people who come out. In the front row, I'll have everyone from a little girl in a frilly tutu, to rockers and gamers and older couples. I love it that it's just everybody.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.