Toni Tennille Quotes

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

My dream has been to have my rock band behind me, play live, and entertain.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

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

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

We really can't go out and party every night like a lot of bands do - we have to keep our voices right for the show. It's a bummer, but you gotta do what you gotta do to live the dream.

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.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

It's hard becoming a member of a girl group among so many competitors. You have to have luck and also need to work hard.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... it's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.

Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries.