Quotes About Performance

In the grownup world an apology tour is just for show.

Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.

I'd rather make music than tour.

When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much.

I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.

On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by myself, 'cause it's a little rougher.

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive.

I've never been invited to do 'Stars on Ice' before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it's disappointing that I can't perform for my American fans... all because I'm not 'family friendly' enough.

Being on tour is a giggle.

Till Death Do Us Party,' I think we put out a great pop album that we recorded in like three days, and it was so much fun to tour.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing 'My Happy Ending' a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional.

I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.