Steve Harris Quotes

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.

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.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

Touring can be quite a dull life.

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

When Dream Theater first started, we were touring in a van and playing clubs.

I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily be in London, Paris, New York of LA. My eyes are burning, my knees hurt and I hate to say it, but a certain and vital part of my nether region is beginning to smell like peanut butter. Welcome to life on tour.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.

After two world tours where we played every state but Greenland, I only saw the inside of a hotel. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but it did get tiring.

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

I get tired of the traveling.

After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same - where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.

I will always tour, it's hard work it really is hard work, but the feedback and the buzz you get back from it is worth it.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.