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“I have the time needed to support the album and tour.”
“I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.”
“I’m always, always really health conscious – even more so on tour.”
“Being able to be one of the headline bands on Warped Tour was a dream I had since I was in middle school.”
“Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn’t been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.”
“Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn’t want to tour.”
“I don’t have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don’t think I retired so that I could be on tour.”
“At my Rolling Stones’ tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.”
“Tour is fun.”
“I’m actually at home when I’m not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.”
“When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.”
“On tour, there’s dry shampoo – I use the one by Bed Head.”
“I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.”
“I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.”
“I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.”
“Breaks are needed after you play a long tour.”
“If you watch the ‘Blue Collar Tour,’ I was probably the least redneck of everybody.”
“I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn’t have a tennis tour.”
“I’m not as incredibly prolific as Louis C. K., and I’m definitely not doing a completely brand-new hour probably by the beginning of the tour.”
“Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.”
“I’d rather make music than tour.”
“I’m not a tour rat. I’m not crazy about it.”
“I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.”
“If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.”
“I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.”
“We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.”
“Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.”
“That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.”
“When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.”
“Rather than missing home when I’m on tour, I miss tour when I’m at home.”
“I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.”
“About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.”
“I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can’t have ’em sittin’ around.”
“After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ I played Romeo.”
“On my tour, either they’re coming to see me, or they’re not.”
“I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the ‘Dangerous’ and ‘History’ tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.”
“Mark Crew, the only producer we’ve ever worked with, has been joining us on tour as often as possible.”
“Yes, actually. Animation’s a very easy thing to watch on tour.”
“We love to make records, and we love to tour.”
“Usually for the tour, there’s about 80 songs in our brain.”
“You don’t write songs, really, when you’re on tour.”
“Coldplay’s ‘Mylo Xyloto’ tour was incredible.”
“It’s very hard to tour.”
“There’s no tour plans, no reunion, no new album… nothing.”
“WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.”
“I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.”
“After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem – which is usually off limits for tourists.”
“Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.”
“I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.”
“I tour as many countries as possible, and I’ve toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.”
“We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.”
“I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I’m touring with Revamp.”
“I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.”
“It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.”
“If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.”
“I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don’t realise what it is like until you actually compete.”
“I’ve won the Tour. But no, I don’t feel I’m a celebrity.”
“We’ve had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.”
“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.”
“My dad was very into cycling and had lots of magazines around the house. So I knew about the best cyclists of that era: Arnaud Tournant, Laurent Gane. I watched a lot of the Tour de France and the Tour of Spain with him.”
“We also tour nationally and internationally.”
“You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.”
“The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.”
“I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.”
“I don’t go on tour tours – I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.”
“I’m not one for Sudoku or crosswords – the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.”
“I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.”
“I’ve been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.”
“The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I’m not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.”
“As far as artists and musicians, they don’t retire. They might tour less.”
“Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.”
“I’m glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.”
“I’m no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.”
“When we are on tour we also take chances.”
“A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.”
“My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.”
“When I’m getting ready for a tour, I’ll work out with the dancers.”
“I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We’re tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.”
“When you’re the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.”
“My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.”
“Nothing in golf is certain, especially on the PGA Tour.”
“As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.”
“I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.”
“I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure.”
“I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.”
“Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what’s the avant-garde of comedy.”
“If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.”
“My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.”
“It is definitely an advantage to have someone on tour with you for company.”
“It’s just special to have a twin sister on the Tour.”
“I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.”
“Before ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am’s attention, and I went on tour with him.”
“Five people in a Volkswagen station wagon without equipment. Now we tour with six people in a van.”
“I like looking for things on tour.”
“I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.”
“I’m basically always on tour.”
“If we didn’t do the tour, it would have been disastrous.”
“I was a food tour guide – I took people on a tour to different restaurants in the area.”
“My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.”
“As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her – and with any pop star of the ’80s.”
“I remember my mum and I went to see the Icky Thump tour when I was young.”
“I wouldn’t do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.”
“I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn’t have the money to go!”
“Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.”
“I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.”
“The woman’s tour is very tough for all of the players.”
“I didn’t tour Europe, because I didn’t have any label support.”
“It’s fantastic news that the Aviva Women’s Tour will continue in 2016.”
“I wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!”
“Indian food is a luxury on tour.”
“If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don’t think… it would have been a total nightmare.”
“During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.”
“There’s something insane about this business – about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.”
“There is sort of an unspoken ‘no skateboarding’ clause on tour that I break pretty often.”
“It’s a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.”
“I’ve always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren’t expecting me to tour with.”
“’Sweetback’ represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.”
“We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.”
“Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.”
“My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.”
“I basically say I’m on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.”
“Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!”
“I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.”
“I do play drums when I’m on tour.”
“If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We’ll see.”
“I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.”
“I never thought I would do an all-acoustic tour or an all-acoustic album.”
“I’m taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They’re so cute.”
“There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don’t let that deter you.”
“Being on tour is a giggle.”
“If I’m not on tour or doing a show, I’m in the studio.”
“I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.”
“If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.”
“My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn’t hear myself.”
“The Big 4 tour was really great.”
“I’m planning to retire from salsa. I’m planning to do a farewell tour.”
“The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.”
“I’ve got a band that I tour with, and they’re not session musicians; they’re my friends.”
“If I’m not on tour, then I’m sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.”
“It’s important to tour with bands that you get along with.”
“I have many good friends on tour.”
“I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.”
“I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of ‘Bye, Bye Birdie.’”
“We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.”
“We’re happier when we’re with friends on tour.”
“We spent a lot of time in the studio. I mean, we’ve spent a lot of time on tour, too.”
“By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.”
“I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.”
“I constantly tour, even when I don’t have a record out.”
“I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.”
“With ‘A Million Miles,’ I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.”
“I’ve turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.”
“I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.”
“As soon as I’m in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.”
“If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour… I’m there.”
“I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin. I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I’m not superstitious.”
“The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.”
“I don’t even listen to music when I’m off tour.”
“Slayer is one of my favorite bands of all time, and to be on a tour with them is absolutely a dream come true.”
“In 1999, we did a thing called the ‘Reinventing The Steel’ tour with Pantera, when I was still with them, and Slayer was part of that, and it was a great tour.”
“And it wasn’t until ’84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.”
“My dream is to tour for 50 years.”
“We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.”
“Whatever happens on tour… stays on tour!”
