David Alpay Quotes

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

I think I've been lucky to work with so many lovely people. But there's Joshua Bell, who's the world's greatest violinist. We worked together live and once, for his record, but I really would want to work with him on one of my records.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

Being on the road is like a campout. I'm the only girl. The guys in my band are like my big brothers. It's definitely an adventure, but it can be a nomadic lifestyle.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

I'm basically always on tour.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.