Gautam Rode Quotes

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

I've been on the road since 1967.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

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.

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

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

Touring is really hard because you're gone for three months at a time.

There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.

We did 300 shows in our first two years.

I always want to be touring.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Being on tour is a giggle.