Touring Quotes - Page 2

• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Artist, Literature, World

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Drumming, Finesse

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• The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

  Christopher Morley

  Healing, Cycling, Novelists

  Christopher Morley (1935). “Morley's Magnum”

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• Ive been touring now since about 68.

  Joe Cocker

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• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

  John Howard

  Fitness, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

  Iris Murdoch

  Healing, Heart, Men

  IRIS MURDOCH (1965). “THE RED AND THE GREEN”

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• I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Average

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• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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  Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Take only memories, leave only footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Travel, Memories

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• Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”

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• Touring is just the most incredible experience, and whilst I try to share it, there are moments where you feel the only way you can really know is to be there in the moment feelings what you are feeling.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Feelings, Trying, Way

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• I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, Kids, Men

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• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Heart, People

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• I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.

  Steve Perry

  Hurt, Spring, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.

  Gary Allan

  Forever, Want, Said

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• 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.

  Janet Jackson

  Jobs, Night, Cities

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• Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

  Kid Rock

  Song, Real, Writing

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• A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

  Bob Dylan

  Breathing, People, Driven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Mayer

  People, Half, Able

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• Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Tough, Bigs, Crew

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• When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

  Diane Lane

  New York, Parent, Mama

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• The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Rolling, Bars, Looks

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• When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

  Vanilla Ice

  Baby, Home, Utah

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Brain, Fantasy

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