Nancy Sinatra Quotes

'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.

I think touring is hard.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.

Who wants to be a 40-year-old rock and roller? You cannot live in the past.

I'm so old, I can remember before rock 'n' roll come along.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

Travel is hard, and it's mostly not your fault.

Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.

I guess getting used to sleeping on the tour bus has been the hardest thing - that and settling for whatever food you can get on the road.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.