Lauv Quotes

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

It's kinda weird sometimes going on tour with bands because you never really know what to expect.

High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was playing in bars and pubs all around Sydney, going on tour. I played with some pretty big bands in Australia.

It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we're pretty grass roots as a band. We've done all that together.

I don't want to slow down. It's my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.

I never expected I was going to travel the world playing gigs with my band and best friends. I have surpassed any dreams I had.

I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

I had a great run with Ratt.

Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.

All I ever wanted to do was be in a band.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.