Quotes About Performance

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

The success of Revamp is clear. We've sold a lot of albums, we've done very good tours, and wherever we play, we get a very positive response, and that's something that would be very nice to keep.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.

I've done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It's, like, grueling, and it's hard, and there's got to be an element to it that's exciting.

I've gotten to be part of a lot of incredible tours and have learned so much from the people I've had the opportunity to open for.

At the end of the touring on Bitte, looking back on all that stuff, I feel really proud of having written that music and of us for having really played awesomely on those tours.

I started many years ago using the Boss DS-1 and then graduated to the Satchurator and putting that right into that clean channel, and that sounds great. I've done many tours with that setup. Then we took the next two channels that were part of the JVM sound in channel 1 and made them a little more subtle.

We plan tours months in advance, and you leave a few days off here and there where you feel you'll be tired after some shows, but if other opportunities keep coming in, those days get swallowed very quickly, and it's an impossibility to get this stuff right.

At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds.

I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

My mom used to take me to the theater to see the tours that would come through D.C., and I loved it. I loved it. I was absolutely enthralled by the theater and by that world.