Mel Tillis Quotes

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

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.

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

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

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

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

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

I've been traveling around to play music since before I even had a driver's license.

I love to play gigs.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

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.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

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

When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

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

Bonnie Raitt and Lynyrd Skynyrd were two people I went on the road with.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.