Mary Lou Williams Quotes

A band requires so much rehearsal and travel logistics. I didn't mind it when I was younger, but there's not much motivation for me to do it now.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

With 'Timbiriche', I toured Brazil and a lot of Latin America.

I'm in this music duo called Moors.

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

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

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.

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

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.

I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.

One of the best things about being in a band is that we're so lucky to be able to travel the world. It takes us to all these cities that we've never seen before.

We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.

With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.

It's interesting, there are a lot of similarities with being in the music business or being in a band, where a lot of it is business work you've gotta do, like emails. It's weird, I don't feel like I'm in charge.

When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.

The story of our band is that we were this relentless touring band in those early years. We were leaving day jobs and going off on the road and having fun and seeing the country for the first time. We were playing Chinese restaurants and basements and record stores and houses. We were crashing on floors and it was all new and exciting. It was like a vacation. It didn't feel like work. I couldn't wait to go on tour back then. I would be sitting at my day job or my apartment, just itching to go. There were so many adventures that were about to happen.