Jonathan Demme Quotes

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.

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

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

Philly has always been one of our favorite towns to play in, and the fans have been very loyal and very supportive over the years.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

Vegas, when we go on tour, is one of the hottest spots for not only people in the United States, but international fans.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners that enjoyed music. You know, what happened - there was a lot of clubs that had bebop music or different forms of music. It was great for musicians.

There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.

In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre.

Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.

I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base - like San Antonio, Minneapolis - those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.