It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, ‘I’ve got to do this.’
We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.
I’m doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.
I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school – he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.
It is hard being in a relationship when you are a dancer as I have been touring a lot all over the world.
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.
Touring is what we work so hard for – performing every night to huge crowds and getting to see all our fans close up.
It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it’s who I am. It’s what I do.
I couldn’t be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I’m onstage and doing interviews.
I hate touring beyond measure. I don’t like all the travelling and the hotel rooms. But the hour and a half on stage each night keep me going.
It’s one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.
I don’t need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I’m not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.
I didn’t have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.
Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He’s such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
If I’m not touring, I wake up late – 10, 11 A.M. – and one of my favorite things is to go for brunch with my wife.
Touring is a tough business.
I’m super serious about that stuff. I mean, it’s rare that I sit down at a drum set when I’m not touring, because we tour so much.
And touring is difficult when everybody’s heads aren’t in the same place.
We’d been out touring for a couple of years before we signed with Sony and everything.
I love making music, and I love touring. I love that I get to wake up and play music. I don’t like being away from my wife and kids.
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 got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
Right when I started touring, there was this wariness I had of the world outside of my small town. But I’m not that person anymore, and I was never completely that person.
I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn’t continue making records and touring, but it’s hard to argue with 10 good years.
While touring in and outside Mumbai to do theatre, I got some good offers to act in films, which brought me success and I continued to do movies.
A lot of the stuff I’ve accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren’t good dance beats they weren’t ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it’s so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
My father, while touring Ramanathapuram, came to know about my affiliation with the BJP when newspapers carried articles about the new faces of the party.
I’m actually enjoying the touring life, although the worst part is being away from my three young children.
In general, I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
Touring gets really lonely.
Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.
Touring is exciting.
Everybody thinks that touring is really glamourous, but I pretty much sit in a room all day. I have a sort of office where I do emails, and I go for a run, and then at the end of the night, I go to bed. It’s not like some crazy party.
Money’s really – you know, song writing, yes, there’s money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.
After graduating college in 2010, I got to work – writing and co-writing all the time, playing and touring in bands, playing for other people’s bands, working in coffee shops all over town.
After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I’m so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.
I didn’t spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement – because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
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.
I had family who exposed me to all sorts of different media involving actors – films, theatrical productions touring through Boston. My grandparents, particularly my mother’s parents, were huge fans of all the arts, and they took me to these shows and exhibits at a very young age, so I was just immersed in it.
My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.
I basically learned hip-hop from *NSYNC. And then while I was touring in theater shows, and I couldn’t take classes in hip-hop but I wanted to, I just watched Justin Timberlake concerts.
Well, I’ve never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
I love touring; if it were up to me I’d be touring all the time.
I’m 30, and I’ve been touring since I was 15. So it’s been a long journey to get here.
I knew I had I a better album than ‘Up the Bracket’ in me, and I wanted to record it. But I was told we’ve got to keep touring, keep promoting. That was the first time I realised we were on a conveyor belt.
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
We’ve always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we’re always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It’s hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.
On tour, I’ll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it’s the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it’s the opposite of healthy.
I’m quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.
I’m asked to drive touring cars, I’m asked to drive IndyCar, but I think Formula One is much more hi-tech and that’s where I want to be in as long as I can.
Being a drag superstar, traveling the world and touring, it really is not as glamorous as you’d think it is. There’s lots of airport drama and bags and buses and hotels. Dating and having a social life are impossible.
Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative.
I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.
I feel like what’s important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans.
The thing is, I’ll always be a touring artist. It’s what I am; that’s what I love doing.
Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don’t like is being on the bus and bouncing around.
Touring is great because I love to travel.
I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I’ll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
