Touring Quotes - Page 6

• I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

  Van Morrison

  Reading, Swimming, My Time

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.

  Keri Russell

  Fall, Night, August

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Numbers, Lamps

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• The hardest part about what I do, the most vulnerable place is my relationship with my family and Sara, my amazing partner, because I'm leaving a lot. And as a touring artist, I'm constantly coming and going, but also when I'm at home, my studio's at home. I'm leaving to go into a music world in my head.

  Michael Franti

  Home, Artist, Leaving

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• America's a funny place. Every time I've come over it just feels absolutely gigantic and massive. I've always had good shows there, but I just go and come back, feeling like another singer/songwriter in a sea of thousands of singer/songwriters. I don't really know what "breaking it in America" is or means. I just focus on touring day-by-day, and show-by-show, and see where it goes.

  Conor O'Brien

  Mean, America, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then, for me, for one reason or another, it usually takes about a year of sort of dicking around before I start up. I write a review or little magazine pieces and touring with the other book. But mainly it's just you're not ready, I'm not ready to start another. You're just not up for it.

  Carolyn See

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Party, Thinking, Social

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.

  Julia Kent

  Nice, Thinking, Different Experiences

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

  Julia Kent

  Downtime, Enjoy, Listening To Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started touring in 2006, and there was an agreement made for merchandise between my mom and myself.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Mom, Agreement, Made

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.

  Danny Jacob

  Song, Writing, Player

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

  Emily Haines

  Fall, Certain, Hard

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.

  Jose James

  Writing, Yesterday, Stuff

  Source: revive-music.com

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• In terms of what happened to Amy [Schumer], if that happened to me I would be like, "Yes, please leave." But I toured a lot. I started as an opening feature act touring a lot during the [George W.] Bush years, like around 2007. I was touring during the [Barack] Obama election - the first one with [Sarah] Palin and [John] McCain - and I talked to crowds about that and they were always split down the middle.

  Jen Kirkman

  Years, Amy, Crowds

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going to college, I was still only an hour away from them.Now, after Idol and touring all over the place, I feel like I have become a lot more independent.

  Carrie Underwood

  Independent, College, Idols

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For me, touring is about looking after myself.

  Boy George

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• In 2008 it's easy to get huge before you have an album out with the Internet. I think that's great and you see a lot of artists like that. It seems like it's becoming rarer to find a band that has been touring for six years, doing small shows and then breaking out.

  Girl Talk

  Thinking, Artist, Years

  Source: uproxx.com

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• That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

  Mac DeMarco

  Running, Block, Guy

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.

  Mac DeMarco

  Phoenix, Fans, Felt

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I do like touring. Sometimes it's crazy. We're really lucky and we've gone all over the world. You can't complain about getting paid to see the world. I've had to reel myself in a little bit at some points.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Complaining, Lucky

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.

  Rakim

  Party, Drinking, Rap

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• When I'm out in the water surfing, it clears my mind and it makes me want to play music and write music, and then when I'm playing a lot of music and touring, I can't wait to get in the water again and surf. So, I'm striving to find that perfect balance, and it's all good.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Writing, Play, Perfect

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

  will.i.am

  Russia, India, Made

  Source: thesource.com

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• When we were touring with The Mighty Boosh, we went on a ghost tour of York. It was all about ghosts, and the tour guide was hilarious.

  Rich Fulcher

  Ghost, Guides, Tour Guides

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're touring, you're constantly in motion.

  Alton Brown

  "Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown". Interview with Joe Dziemianowicz, www.nydailynews.com. November 21, 2016.

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