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Quotes About Fatigue

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
~ Alex Kapranos
When you record and tour year after year without a break, it starts to feel like you're on an assembly line.
~ David Draiman
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
~ Christopher Moore
I'm definitely sleep deprived - it is so hard to sleep on a tour bus! It moves around so much, and we have really weird time schedules.
~ Alice Merton
The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.
~ Lyle Lovett
Touring for two years is excruciating.
~ Chester Bennington
Touring is hard on the body.
~ Eminem
I don't like touring. I've done so much of it, you know.
~ Agnes Moorehead
One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.
~ Aaron Dessner
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
~ Roger Andrew Taylor
When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.
~ Jahangir Khan
Rest is huge because if you're sleep-deprived, that can definitely run into the mental side of the game and can definitely hurt your game if you're playing tournament golf.
~ Jason Day
If you look at the players, they need more of a break. Some players only get as little as three weeks after a major tournament and it's straight back to the grind.
~ Joachim Low
I used to feel very tired during tournaments. I was drinking four or five coffees per day and felt I needed more.
~ Neil Robertson
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.
~ Lev Grossman
What I've found in the last few tours is that it takes a week to hit the body. You're still on a high and your body gets into a rhythm. So, you almost have to de-train off it and keep riding the bike for a few days before you take a while off.
~ Sam Bennett
If I play all the IPL games the whole season, I do get a bit tired towards the end.
~ AB de Villiers
A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.
~ Lesley Manville
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.
~ Paul Feig
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
~ Rupert Holmes
Jet lag is for amateurs.
~ Dick Clark
Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
The habit of procrastination fatigues you more than the effort it takes to do the task.
~ Shiv Khera
I am tired of these escape plans. I'm tired of everything. I just want it all to end.
~ Shyam Selvadurai