Norman Granz Quotes

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

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

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.

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 do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

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

It's always hard to find groups who can tour with The Prodigy.

Pay-per-view events for us were really just another show while we were out on a road tour.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

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.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I've been on the road since 1967.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.