Top 360 Touring Quotes

System is always System for me. If System’s touring or making a record, I’m there.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

We get to play every team before the World Cup, touring in different conditions besides a few series at home. It gives a lot of opportunities to the youngsters. As we play more, we get to see who a quality player is and what plans and strategies would work for the team.

I tend to write better when I’m not touring.

When you’re 17, touring is fun.

‘Easy’ is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.

One of the downfalls of not being in Stone Sour was I sat at home for two and a half years, and I hadn’t ever done that since we started touring in 1999. I was really nervous and freaked out.

My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n’ roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music.

Id been touring in Japan and Australia and was due to play in America when Covid struck. I couldnt get back to England for a whole week, so I ended up spending it in Miami on my own.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

It feels like it’s just starting in America and the UK. It’s great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn’t happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

I don’t really know what ‘selling out’ is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody’s buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It’s always too dirty. It’s always too filthy. I’m dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free.

Touring is very tough.

Even when we were stuck touring, earning $100 a day, I never thought I’d even make it that far.

There are a lot of actors that don’t like touring and will do just about anything to get out of it, but I loved it. I loved the cities, the people, and the new experiences it offered.

Anyone can exceed expectations in one way or another and I hope to prove that when I race alongside, not just able-bodied drivers, but the best Touring Car drivers in the UK.

I don’t really work on songs when we’re touring because there’s just too much other stuff going on.

I think touring is hard.

There’s nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It’s basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative… Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

Touring doesn’t have to be a harried, cliched way of life.

I don’t think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like… I think when you’re young, you think it’s very glamourous, but it’s not.

One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, ‘You must have read this,’ or ‘You must have seen this,’ or ‘Do you listen to this?’ Usually I haven’t.

It wouldn’t be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

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.

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.

When I’m not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I’ll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

I don’t actually like touring.

Touring the world was almost like a side project that got out of control. It’s like two incredibly demanding full-time jobs that I’m trying to do at once.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people’s places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I don’t mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you’re resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you’re gone.

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.

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.

It’s good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.

I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.

I guess some of today’s programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

We’re known as a touring band, not a singles band.

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

The thing that is comforting about being a touring musician is whenever I say bye to my friends, I’m like, ‘I don’t know when I’ll see you again but it’ll be sooner than I think and if it’s not soon then it won’t matter.’

The last time I put out ‘Raw,’ that boosted me up in the underground to one of the top underground artists who was making moves and touring around the world.

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 a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most ‘cos you don’t realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

I’d been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I’d just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It’s like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you’d get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

There’s this misconception out there that at any level of celebrity, you have someone to do hair and makeup when you’re out touring, but no, it is just not the case. I do it all myself.

I decided to open up The Bailey Wine Cellar because after visiting Napa and touring the wineries there, I genuinely became interested in and more curious about the wine culture.

You have to be real sharp when you’re touring. I’m dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days.

I guess I don’t know if I’m comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.

The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.

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.

Touring, it’s really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that’s why there’s so few bands that do work, actually, ’cause there’s so much that goes into it.

So many people have told me that it’s quite different playing out in the States, and obviously, as a musician, touring in the States is kind of the Holy Grail.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: ‘put your hands up or make some noise,’ they just did it.

Touring is completely different to me than being in the studio.