I’d rather make music than tour.
I remember when I first came out on tour, it was Greg Norman and Nick Price. We forget how big Norman was, what a presence he was. I remember one of my first tournaments, Greg threw an orange peel down on the ground and some fan ran over and grabbed it. ‘This is Greg Norman’s orange peel!’
My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn’t really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
I met Bowie when I was 15 backstage at his ‘Reality’ tour and blacked out completely. I have no memory of the encounter except just looking into his different-colored eyes.
Whether you like another band’s music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.
I don’t really put cars in my videos because I’m always flying or on a tour bus.
It has been wild, you know? I started out just putting a song that I made out on the Internet without being sure if anyone was going to like it, and it took me on tour around the world with Justin Bieber. It’s been amazing!
If you weren’t a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren’t a risk-taker, you weren’t going to win the Tour de France.
I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I’m on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I’m still nowhere near that point. Because I didn’t have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.
I’m actually at home when I’m not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands.
Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don’t believe me – take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I’m writing or recording or when I’m playing on tour. When I’m sitting around at home, I never play.
I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.
I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn’t mind doing something with her.
Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.
If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
It’s been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it’s actually working out okay.
After my second-to-last record, ‘The Greatest’, I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn’t play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – it’s not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadn’t been challenging myself to learn musically.
I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
What I noticed, in the short time I’ve been in Chickenfoot, we wound up doing a tour and a live DVD with basically that scoop sound. I was using OD2 for that entire tour. When we went out on this new tour and made the new record, I used the amp in an entirely different way. It was already modified.
I’d like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I’m young now and I haven’t really got a social life. This is all I do. It’s the best job in the world, but I’ll get to the point where there’s more to life than work.
I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.
When you’re on tour, you’re trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you’re going to write and be in the studio, it’s like, ‘Now I have to think about me.’ That’s the mind-set you have to work with.
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N’ Roll Mystery Tour.
The Fiesta Tour McDonald’s exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards.
I actually did my first tour at the age of 10 with my dad, and it was as a country singer. We toured through Alaska, and he took me to sing at places like county fairs, hoedowns, backyard barbecues, you name it. We were usually passing around the hat for gas money to get to the next gig.
Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.
I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.
My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn’t hear myself.
I’d happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn’t have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
As far as the Animals breaking up – it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.
I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn’t something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren’t a family that obsessed on cinema.
There’s no tour plans, no reunion, no new album… nothing.
When I first got out of school, I went on a children’s theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city.
I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
I just like being around people, especially nice people, and there are a lot of nice girls on tour.
I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.
I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, ‘The Clock’ is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman.
That’s always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.
Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, ‘Unknown Pleasures,’ was doing well; we’d just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band’s profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
I’m just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.
I have this weird musical thing I do: I play violin, and I even went on tour with Tim Robbins. We did a bunch of Canadian cities, and then went down to the States, and then we ended up in Japan.
I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We’re tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.
You have to change your life for yourself, and it’s about the fun of getting there – sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
Expressing myself is what I love most; not having enough time is what I hate about it… I keep to myself, though, when I am on tour, and focus on the tour.
I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the ‘Dangerous’ and ‘History’ tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.
To play music, you have to understand it. I didn’t understand ‘Topographic Oceans.’ That’s why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end – and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
Seeing my daughter for the first time after I came back from the tour was just a life-changing experience… it still blows my mind.
We only get together when there’s a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn’t really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52’s tour was a good opportunity.
For me to call myself a musician, it’s necessary to play live, and it rewards so much – not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour – I feel it at the end of a tour – all that I’ve gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much.
