Fred Schneider Quotes

We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not.

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 in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

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

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!

I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.

We don't have a constant PR person or anything. That's why people say. 'Oh, you're still together?' Yeah. I'm in Des Moines with the band, not because I'm sightseeing.

Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.

My specific goal is for Twice is to travel across the U.S. together, performing for fans in every state. That would be a dream!

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.