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• I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Hours, Knows

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• Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Long, Records

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• I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  Eddie Vedder

  Water, Salt, Peppers

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Stars, Parent, Musician

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• When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

  Christopher Walken

  Kids, Son, Men

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• I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.

  Dionne Warwick

  Country, Stress, Past

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• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  Florence Welch

  Band, Stuff, Parts Of Life

  "Florence and the Machine: 'I was almost out of control'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.

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• But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

  Vanessa Mae

  Animal, Mind, Thrill

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• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Country, War, Mean

  "Assassination Vacation". Book by Sarah Vowell, www.npr.org. March 2005.

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• Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church!

  Hilary Duff

  Cute, Church, Looks

  Hilary Duff (2010). “Elixir”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Soccer, Team, Sky

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

  Lita Ford

  Travel, Funny Travel

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• Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

  Corey Taylor

  Country, Home, Memorable

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• But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.

  Brandi Carlile

  Years, Two, Sound

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• It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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• After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Feelings, Band, Elements

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

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• I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and even rode mules. To do all these things in one of the most stunning natural areas in the world just made it more amazing. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

  Nolan Gould

  Fun, Believe, Kayaking

  "Nolan Gould, ‘Modern Family’ Actor, Heads To The Grand Canyon With Sierra Club", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

  Joe Cocker

  Years, Looks, Want

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• I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

  Vivien Leigh

  Country, Memories, Drinking

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• Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

  Keith Urban

  Who I Am, Important, My Family

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• It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Pain, Twenties, Wake Up

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• You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then the movie, had by then also created a commercial expectation and I remember touring America and seeing people in the audiences who I thought might not want to read the books I wanted to write next. My constituency had become broader, but more mysterious to me.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

  Kim Wilde

  Mistake, Numbers, America

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• One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Writing, Practice

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• When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

  Gerard Way

  Jail, Jersey, Minutes

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