Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
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.
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. The equation was simple: If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk. 'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control. It was like songwriting; you just do it. You want a record, you pay the pressing plant. That's what it was all about.'
I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring
INXS’ touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.
That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
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.
Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
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