I’ve forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day… But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.
The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can’t wait to go, but you don’t want to leave.
Touring around the world, I think there’s no single country where we haven’t eaten chili crab.
Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn’t fair.
I just love singing, songwriting and touring.
My main professional experience is touring in a rock band.
Your time is spent making records, planning, touring – not counting the days until another guy’s concert. There are some newer artists I like in a casual, passing way, but I couldn’t tell you the bass player’s name or name two songs off of their new record.
Bun E.’s a member of the band, but he’s not touring, and he’s not recording… We’ve had our differences, but we’re all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.
Being able to tour and experience all of the stuff that comes from touring, and then being able to come back to Nashville, it’s almost like therapy to be able to get into a session and talk about all of the things that I’m going through. It’s so much more real to me.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn’t enjoying myself any more.
I’ll Uber to who has the best expressos, and I’ll take my iPad and go get a coffee… It’s really given the touring situation a whole other layer of enjoyment.
Touring is a weird thing. It’s like getting married to four different people.
While we were touring for ‘Vacation,’ we weren’t aware that the record wasn’t doing well. It was a good tour, but the album didn’t go over with critics.
I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I’m lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
By the time Guns n’ Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.
I don’t like touring. I’ve done so much of it, you know.
I’m dedicated to touring the rest of my life.
I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England – this is, like, 1984 – there were these two girls. They were literally vicar’s daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
Madonna would not have done a 360 deal with us just because of our touring capability. We had to prove to her and others that we have been working on and built a very good execution capacity at Artist Nation.
I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.
My dad’s family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music – no wonder I turned out how I did.
When I’m not touring I really enjoy the ease of cooking at home.
I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?
I’ve been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground like so many artists, hand-to-mouth and so forth. And I never had the power to make decisions.
I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I’d been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.
When you’re a touring musician, you’re always turning over new rocks, and there’s always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
When I left Free back in 1972, I didn’t play ‘All Right Now’ until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters.
I love touring. You get to meet so many people and experience different cultures.
Touring doesn’t kill me and I can handle it.
When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We’ve just been chipping away at it. We’re not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that’s a three year promotion and touring cycle.
I always want to be touring.
There are nights when you can feel stale because you’ve fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it’s easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
Jay Z is one of the world’s preeminent touring artists.
Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made ‘Animals’ when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I’ve been living a different life. I’ve been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I’ve been in the studio with my biggest idols.
I’m hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty.
We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.
My dream was to be the biggest comic with the biggest band, touring together.
As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can’t all be Mike Watt.
I love touring. I love stand up. I love getting on a tour bus with my friends.
I’m a touring musician. I don’t watch the charts. I had the kind of success I’d hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
What I learned is that it’s very hard to have both a family life and a touring life simultaneously.
Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn’t reflect in the sales of the record and doesn’t go into my pocket.
If someone wants to shout at me and tell me I’m bowling badly, that’s fine. I may not agree but it’s fine. It’s part of the experience of being a touring cricketer.
It’s a funny thing… I started touring at nine or ten years old, and for the first ten, fifteen, almost twenty years of your career, you’re the youngest guy on stage and the youngest guy in the room.
After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there.
Touring is very grueling. It’s very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It’s a tough job.
If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don’t mind touring.
I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I’m not in hotels or living it up.
I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I’m touring with Revamp.
I don’t like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.
When you’re in the same band as somebody, you’re seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side ’cause touring is no easy thing.
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.
If I wasn’t touring, I wasn’t making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn’t have to do anything.
I could tell when I first started having sessions with stylists that my size was an issue. No one outright told me to lose weight but I knew it was a problem. I started to lose weight when I began touring.
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we’d never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that’s sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.
