Mac DeMarco Quotes

I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

I would get very bored if I just did one thing.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.

I get bored of vacation.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

Commuter — one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife ;, A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

I've been on the 'Tonight Show' a million times, and I'd be embarrassed to do the same thing more than once.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.