Touring Quotes - Page 10

• Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Shy, Helping, Help Me

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

  Bradford Cox

  Talking, Groups, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.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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• When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

  Burton Cummings

  Song, Home, Guitar

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• I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Comic, Hotel, Enthusiastic

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• I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

  Chris Blackwell

  Feels, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

  Louise Slaughter

  Country, Artist, America

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• Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.

  Ville Valo

  Like Being Alone, Interesting, Problem

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.

  Iggy Azalea

  Music, Eye, Artist

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• When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor -
  that, to me, is freedom.

  Mitch Lucker

  Home, Needs, Withdrawal

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• In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

  Eric Burdon

  Air, Nuts, Shells

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• It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect and it's really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we've all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it - you always feel messed up. But it's a good problem to have.

  David Macklovitch

  Crazy, Years, People

  "Dillon Francis Interviews Friends Including Kygo, Bro Safari, on 'This Mixtape is Fire'". edmchicago.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing because you've got that passion; it was sort of a Celtic thing. The Irish and Scots they just go for it and not too worried about looking good. When I was in the states touring, I landed in Seattle to do a gig and one of the fans came to me and told me about Gary's death. It was very hard for me to carry on, it was awful.

  Jack Bruce

  Passion, Missing, Fans

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• I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south you're going from snow to palm trees.

  Greg Lake

  Snow, Tree, United States

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• Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

  Moby

  Kings, Two, People

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• But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Thinking, Creating

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• U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Cities, Organization

  "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)". Book by Dave Barry, 2007.

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• Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Wings, Band, Crowds

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• I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.

  Kirk Windstein

  Fun, Drunk, Bored

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• I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

  Keanu Reeves

  Song, Writing, Beer

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• That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

  Mike Patton

  Way, Great Things, Right Way

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. January 2013.

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• The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Careers, Long

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• I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

  Joel Plaskett

  Canada, Being Cool, Diminish

  Source: www.coltoneddy.com

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• When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.

  Dan Mangan

  Home, Kids, Night

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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