Quotes About Performance

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.

I think touring is hard.

I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet.

Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the road - one day you're here, next day it's snowing, and the next you are in a desert and it's 110 degrees. So I guess I'm kind of used to the madness physically that you go to when you are an entertainer. But it's been great.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.

For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.

I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.

Touring is the best invention of all time, so if I have to suffer a little bit of payback for having all this fun, then so be it.

I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.