Quotes About Performance

When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these albums, and I get on the road. It's not really a radio-driven thing. I get on the road, and I see my fans, and I touch each and every last one of them.

Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that.

I didn't know what to expect when we first started touring behind 'Southeastern' because you don't want to lull anybody to sleep or lose their attention. But it's really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.

I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.

I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.

Touring is something I do really well.

Touring takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.

Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.

Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

I feel like touring is a man's game. And I don't think that's sexist; I just think, on tour, you can't really take care of yourself the way you want to.

Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.

I've always wanted to be a pop star of sorts because I love the whole touring gig.

Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.

I don't know why comedians moan about touring; you get driven to a town, stay in a hotel, work for an hour and a half with nice people, and eat fatty service station food. There's nothing not to like.