Tour Quotes

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.
Matt Cameron

Life, Music, Good

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
Gerry Mulligan

Writing, Finished, Current

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
Richard Marx

Two, Joke, Album

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.
Mick Taylor

Good, Short, Band

I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
Ashlee Simpson

Life, Love, Music

You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
Gustavo Dudamel

Learn, Humanly, Musically

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.
Chris Robinson

Dad, Nothing, Old

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
Chris Robinson

Wisdom, Deal, Campaign

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
Billy Sherwood

Keep, Off, Last

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
Robin Trower

Good, Great, Experience

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.
Rosanne Cash

Down, Three, Guitars

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
Armistead Maupin

Book, Learn, Maybe

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
Neil Innes

Before, Big, Fact

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
Bruce Dickinson

Life, Drunk, Done

I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.
Nina Hagen

Long, Thinking, Through

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.
Nina Hagen

Whenever, Following, Sold

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
Bruce Sterling

Great, After, Idea

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
Gary Cherone

Different, Before, Chance

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
Bill Walton

Fun, Made, Though

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.
Richie Benaud

Find, Same, Sometimes

But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.
Luther Allison

Home, Dream, Able

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
Bernard Hinault

Working, Public, Director

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
Bernard Hinault

Keep, Close, France

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
Andy Summers

Today, Big, Place

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
Warren Cuccurullo

End, Writing, Together

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
Neil Tennant

Power, Yourself, Able

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
Aaron Carter

Life, Home, Play

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.
Lee Konitz

Car, Night, After

All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.
Brandon Thomas

Great, Cool, Together

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Kristin Hersh

Humor, Fun, Stupid

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