Quotes About Career

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online.

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of doing - all the guys who are out here. I'm just happy to be able to call this a job, if you want to call it a job.

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

I booked my first national tour of a Broadway show right out of college. It was the tap show, '42nd Street.' I had only been tap dancing for three years when I booked that show.

I toured with Andrea Bocelli, went to London to do a show for a year in the West End.

I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible.

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

I'm actually enjoying the touring life, although the worst part is being away from my three young children.

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

I have been fortunate enough to have a diverse career - appearing on TV, touring the country and meeting tons of celebrities, even hanging out with rock stars - and it has been a blast.

My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

I've been touring now since about '68.

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.