Del Shannon Quotes

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.

In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goes by at high-speed; it will take your breath away.

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

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've been on the road since 1967.

I'm basically always on tour.

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.

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

It seems effortless and fun, and obviously it's hard work, but we love road life.

A lot of bands live and breathe out of hotels. I just happen to be the one that lives on my bus. I have camped and RVed my entire life.

Make no mistake about it: when you're on the road Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - on the road 300 days a year - you have to be a certain type of person.

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.

It's always difficult to be a traveling musician and still keep things together.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

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 had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

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.

I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.

Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.

I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.