“I have the time needed to support the album and tour.”
― Aaliyah
“I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.”
― Alex Kapranos
“I’m always, always really health conscious – even more so on tour.”
― Alissa White-Gluz
“Being able to be one of the headline bands on Warped Tour was a dream I had since I was in middle school.”
― Andy Biersack
“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.”
― Andy Partridge
“Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn’t want to tour.”
― Andy Partridge
“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.”
― Andy Roddick
“At my Rolling Stones’ tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.”
― Annie Leibovitz
“Tour is fun.”
― ASAP Ferg
“I’m actually at home when I’m not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.”
― Austin Carlile
“When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.”
― Avril Lavigne
“On tour, there’s dry shampoo – I use the one by Bed Head.”
― Banks
“I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.”
― Ben Lovett
“I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.”
― Bernard Hinault
“I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.”
― Bernard Hinault
“Breaks are needed after you play a long tour.”
― Bhuvneshwar Kumar
“If you watch the ‘Blue Collar Tour,’ I was probably the least redneck of everybody.”
― Bill Engvall
“I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn’t have a tennis tour.”
― Billie Jean King
“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.”
― Bo Burnham
“Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.”
― Bob Dylan
“I’d rather make music than tour.”
― Bob Seger
“I’m not a tour rat. I’m not crazy about it.”
― Bob Seger
“I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.”
― Bobby Vinton
“If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.”
― Bradley Wiggins
“I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.”
― Brendon Urie
“We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.”
― Bubba Sparxxx
“Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.”
― Calvin Trillin
“That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.”
― Charlie Byrd
“When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.”
― Chris Cornell
“Rather than missing home when I’m on tour, I miss tour when I’m at home.”
― Chris Rea
“I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.”
― Christina Milian
“About two months ago I finished a gospel tour.”
― Cliff Richard
“I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can’t have ’em sittin’ around.”
― Clint Black
“After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ I played Romeo.”
― Clive Owen
“On my tour, either they’re coming to see me, or they’re not.”
― Cole Swindell
“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.”
― Cris Judd
“Mark Crew, the only producer we’ve ever worked with, has been joining us on tour as often as possible.”
― Dan Smith
“Yes, actually. Animation’s a very easy thing to watch on tour.”
― Dave Rowntree
“We love to make records, and we love to tour.”
― David Bryan
“Usually for the tour, there’s about 80 songs in our brain.”
― David Bryan
“You don’t write songs, really, when you’re on tour.”
― David Longstreth
“Coldplay’s ‘Mylo Xyloto’ tour was incredible.”
― Daya
“It’s very hard to tour.”
― Dee Dee Ramone
“There’s no tour plans, no reunion, no new album… nothing.”
― Dee Snider
“WE used to tour quite a lot during the summer with Everton in my day.”
― Dixie Dean
“I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.”
― Dominic Chianese
“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.”
― Dorothy Dunnett
“Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“I’m the one in the band that said I’m not going on tour unless we do a record.”
― Eddie Van Halen
“I tour as many countries as possible, and I’ve toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.”
― Elton John
“We were with Frank as part of his very last tour.”
― Eydie Gorme
“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.”
― Floor Jansen
“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.”
― Fred Funk
“It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.”
― Fred Schneider
“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
“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.”
― Geraint Thomas
“I’ve won the Tour. But no, I don’t feel I’m a celebrity.”
― Geraint Thomas
“We’ve had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.”
― Glenn Danzig
“The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.”
― Gloria Swanson
“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.”
― Grégory Baugé
“We also tour nationally and internationally.”
― Graeme Murphy
“You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.”
― Gustavo Dudamel
“The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.”
― Hanya Yanagihara
“I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.”
― Harlan Coben
“I don’t go on tour tours – I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.”
― Harland Williams
“I’m not one for Sudoku or crosswords – the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.”
― Ian Anderson
“I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.”
― Iris Chang
“I’ve been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.”
― Jack Antonoff
“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.”
― Jack Nicklaus
“As far as artists and musicians, they don’t retire. They might tour less.”
― James Hetfield
“Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.”
― James Surowiecki
“I’m glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.”
― James Taylor
“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.”
― Jamie Cullum
“When we are on tour we also take chances.”
― Jan Garbarek
“A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.”
― Jane Howard
“My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.”
― Janet Jackson
“When I’m getting ready for a tour, I’ll work out with the dancers.”
― Janet Jackson
“I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We’re tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.”
― Jason Molina
“When you’re the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.”
― Jens Voigt
“My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.”
― Jessica Williams
“Nothing in golf is certain, especially on the PGA Tour.”
― Jim Nantz
“As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.”
― Jim Nantz
“I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.”
― Joan Armatrading
“I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it’s good to be home, for sure.”
― Joan Jett
“I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.”
― John Tesh
“Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what’s the avant-garde of comedy.”
― Jonathan Krisel
“If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.”
― Joyce Brothers
“My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.”
― Julie Andrews
“It is definitely an advantage to have someone on tour with you for company.”
― Karolina Pliskova
“It’s just special to have a twin sister on the Tour.”
― Karolina Pliskova
“I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.”
― Kat Edmonson
“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.”
― Kat Graham
“Five people in a Volkswagen station wagon without equipment. Now we tour with six people in a van.”
― Kate Pierson
“I like looking for things on tour.”
― Kate Pierson
“I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.”
― Kate Pierson
“I’m basically always on tour.”
― Kathy Griffin
“If we didn’t do the tour, it would have been disastrous.”
― Keith Emerson
“I was a food tour guide – I took people on a tour to different restaurants in the area.”
― Kelly Marie Tran
“My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.”
― Kelsea Ballerini
“As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her – and with any pop star of the ’80s.”
― Kim Petras
“I remember my mum and I went to see the Icky Thump tour when I was young.”
― King Princess
“I wouldn’t do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.”
― Kip Winger
“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!”
― Kreayshawn
“Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.”
― Lauren Daigle
“I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.”
― Lee Ritenour
“The woman’s tour is very tough for all of the players.”
― Li Na
“I didn’t tour Europe, because I didn’t have any label support.”
― Lita Ford
“It’s fantastic news that the Aviva Women’s Tour will continue in 2016.”
― Lizzie Armitstead
“I wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!”
― Ludovico Einaudi
“Indian food is a luxury on tour.”
― Mahesh Bhupathi
“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.”
― Maren Morris
“During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.”
― Mark Hoppus
“There’s something insane about this business – about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.”
― Martin Gore
“There is sort of an unspoken ‘no skateboarding’ clause on tour that I break pretty often.”
― Matt Skiba
“It’s a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.”
― Matthew Ramsey
“I’ve always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren’t expecting me to tour with.”
― Mayer Hawthorne
“’Sweetback’ represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.”
― Melvin Van Peebles
“We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.”
― Mike D
“Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.”
― Mitski
“My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.”
― Moby
“I basically say I’m on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.”
― Natalie MacMaster
“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!”
― Nicola Cornick
“I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.”
― Nina Hagen
“I do play drums when I’m on tour.”
― Norman Wisdom
“If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We’ll see.”
― Paula Abdul
“I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.”
― Percy Heath
“I never thought I would do an all-acoustic tour or an all-acoustic album.”
― Peter Frampton
“I’m taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They’re so cute.”
― Pink
“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.”
― Raymond Bonner
“Being on tour is a giggle.”
― Rhys Ifans
“If I’m not on tour or doing a show, I’m in the studio.”
― Rich the Kid
“I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.”
― Richie Sambora
“If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.”
― Rick Nielsen
“My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn’t hear myself.”
― Rita Ora
“The Big 4 tour was really great.”
― Robert Trujillo
“I’m planning to retire from salsa. I’m planning to do a farewell tour.”
― Ruben Blades
“The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.”
― Sachin Tendulkar
“I’ve got a band that I tour with, and they’re not session musicians; they’re my friends.”
― Sam Fender
“If I’m not on tour, then I’m sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.”
― Shaggy
“It’s important to tour with bands that you get along with.”
― Sonny Sandoval
“I have many good friends on tour.”
― Stan Wawrinka
“I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.”
― Steve Sabol
“I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of ‘Bye, Bye Birdie.’”
― Steve Zahn
“We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.”
― Steven Adler
“We’re happier when we’re with friends on tour.”
― Synyster Gates
“We spent a lot of time in the studio. I mean, we’ve spent a lot of time on tour, too.”
― Synyster Gates
“By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.”
― Taylor Dayne
“I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.”
― Ted Nugent
“I constantly tour, even when I don’t have a record out.”
― Teena Marie
“I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.”
― Theophilus London
“With ‘A Million Miles,’ I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.”
― Tiffany Darwish
“I’ve turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.”
― Tim Curry
“I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.”
― Todd Barry
“As soon as I’m in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.”
― Tom Walker
“If Trent Reznor calls and says he needs a drummer for his tour… I’m there.”
― Tommy Lee
“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.”
― Tony Finau
“The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.”
― Trevor Dunn
“I don’t even listen to music when I’m off tour.”
― Vince Neil
“Slayer is one of my favorite bands of all time, and to be on a tour with them is absolutely a dream come true.”
― Vinnie Paul
“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.”
― Vinnie Paul
“And it wasn’t until ’84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.”
― Wanda Jackson
“My dream is to tour for 50 years.”
― Winston Marshall
“We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.”
― Winston Marshall
“Whatever happens on tour… stays on tour!”
― WizKid
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