Mac DeMarco Quotes

That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

I've been touring now since about '68.

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

I've had the worst relationships because with touring it's impossible.

When you tour as much as I do, you're always on the road, and you tend to gravitate toward cities where you're like, 'Every time I'm in that city, the shows are fun.'

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

My favorite part about modeling is probably my least favorite part as well. It's traveling. Because it goes both ways. It's so amazing to get to see the world; we're so fortunate to go to all these places that I would never be in unless I was a model.

You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.

When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up fun drama, because it can get a little boring, but that's all light-hearted fun so that's different.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.

Touring is a weird thing. It's like getting married to four different people.

I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

For me, travel is one of the biggest perks of pro wrestling. You get to see the world on somebody else's dime.

Being in a band can be really toxic to being in a relationship, considering all the touring and everything. Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

There's beautiful things about tour - you're seeing the world, spreading music and I'm able to call that what I do. But it's about living lightly and abandoning things.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.

I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.