David Sanborn Quotes

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

We love to make records, and we love to tour.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

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.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

If I'm not on tour, then I'm sometimes laying down four or five records at a time.

I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.

I don't like people who make records and then don't ever perform. If you are going to make a record it's important you get out there so people can see you if they want to and get to hear you if they want to.

One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.

We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.