Tours Quotes

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"It is much more satisfying to write your own songs. Otherwise you are only as good as the next batch of songwriters. You have to put in the hours too. I did eight tours of the US, playing as many gigs as possible before I was a hit here. As well as being much more satisfying, writing your own songs gives you a better chance of having a longterm career."

- Dido

I want to play places that are uncharted rock & roll territory. Much as I love America, a lot of America we never played in - we`ve never played Wichita. But I`d like to go to Asia, I`d like to go to India, I`d like to play the Middle East. I`d like to play more in Eastern Europe. All those places, there is zero money, you know, but you are hoping to break even. Which is a concept most people who run rock & roll tours can`t grasp, because what`s the point of spending a year touring and earning no money when you could be back in America, earning money. But that`s what I would like to do.

- Mick Jagger

"When I used to do tours, I`d be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test."

- Scott Bakula

(on Kurt Cobain, who quoted the Young song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" in his suicide note) The fact that he left the lyrics to my song right there with him when he killed himself left a profound feeling on me, but I don`t think he was saying I have to kill myself because I don`t want to fade away. I don`t think he was interpreting the song in a negative way. It`s a song about artistic survival, and I think he had a problem with the fact that he thought he was selling out, and he didn`t know how to stop it. He was forced to do tours when he didn`t want to, forced into all kinds of stuff. I was trying to get a hold of him - because I had heard some of the things he was doing to himself - just to tell him it`s OK not to tour, it`s OK not to do these things, just take control of your life and make your music. Or, hey, don`t make music. But as soon as you feel like you`re out there pretending, you`re fucked. I think he knew that instinctively, but he was young and he didn`t have a lot of self-control. And who knows what other personal things in his life were having a negative impression on him at the time?

- Neil Young

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

- Justin Timberlake

Joe hates crowds and glamour. - explaining why Joe DiMaggio didn`t come on one of her USO tours

- Marilyn Monroe

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

- Bruce Springsteen

We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too early. We wanted to get the most out of every phase, like putting out a record on an independent label and playing small clubs, then doing bigger records and bigger tours. I think that just made us better prepared for this whole experience.

- Brett Anderson

I`m usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

- Phil Collins

The neighbors watch for it every year. We also give tours of the church.

- Jane Greer

We`ve done walking tours before, ... Citizens Bank has sponsored them to take them to a new level.

- David Fox

Yeah, and it`s only going to get worse, because the road magnifies whatever you`ve got going on at home, like anything else. Not having a stable home life, and then not having a good stable belief system, or whatever, has always sent me into a tailspin just as soon as I hit the road. So... having those two things in place, I`m ready to go out on the road and do well, as opposed to some of my past tours. I`m looking forward to this tour, and that`s where `Celebrity Fit Club` kinda helped with.

- Jani Lane

I don`t mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

- John Entwistle

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

- Michael Lewis

There`s a pattern when tours start-a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There`s a pattern of going to jail. There`s a pattern of passion for music.

- Nikki Sixx

My joke, which isn`t really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

- Richard Marx

I never thought theyd become a continuous event. At first, I thought, Ill give it a try and see how many people show up, ... But Ive had up to 50 people on these tours at times, which is almost uncontrollable.

- Robert Sullivan

An Australian friend of mine runs tours in STH America and every now and then he arranges with me to have a barbecue for certain groups.

- Ronald Biggs

I`ve been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

- Alfred Molina

So I`ve had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

- Joan Armatrading

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we`ve done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

- Joan Armatrading

We once did six tours of America in 15 months.

- John Bonham

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

- John Bonham

On all the tours we`ve done, we`ve gone from school in the morning to radio, we go to lunch with someone that`s important, then go do a show, do a singing, go to bed. It never stops

- Nick Jonas

The tours are campaigns.

- Zakk Wylde

Many times I`ve gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

- Ben E. King

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we`d open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it`s the hippest thing to do. We`re just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

- Bootsy Collins

This dovetails nicely with the 225-year anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress. I can foresee this being tied to all of the heritage tours that are offered.

- Nancy Anderson

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

I haven`t seen many guys who have managed to play both tours successfully, so I`ve decided to play in stretches of months rather than weeks. I`m back here and I`d love to win on home soil.

- Brian Davis

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

- Bernard Cornwell

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

- Morley Safer

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let`s say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

- Aleksandra Dubov

It`s pretty awesome, ... It`s pretty serious. Other sports have their own tours, like NASCAR and golf; now we have one of our own. Plus we`re getting a lot of TV coverage.

- Andy Puzder

If you ask BASS, they would say they view us as competitors, ... But we think there`s room for two tours.

- Andy Tafelski

There isn`t a big difference between the talent of those on the PGA Tour and those on the mini tours,

- Anthony Haynes

I was making money on the Golden Bear and Hooters tours, not playing badly and not injured, but it was time to move on.

- Anthony Haynes

These victories, especially on a consistent basis, will begin to show with the trickle-down effect. It will show from the top to the bottom as people get on the bandwagon. This will help improve our base at home, but, most importantly, it will bring new people on board. It will snowball. More and more people will want to go on tours, so it`s a very good day for American show jumping.

- April Elkashef

It puts the workshop students in contact with other writers and also helps them to interact with the community, ... Audience members ask intelligent questions on the experiences of the writers, such as ways to conduct book tours.

- Arlene Tolette