Kerry King Quotes

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

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.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

The best part of touring is playing the shows. I mean, that is the point of touring, at least for me. I have been blessed in that I've always gotten to play with other good musicians.

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 had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

I've been touring now since about '68.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.

I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

We love performing, we love touring.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up fun drama, because it can get a little boring, but that's all light-hearted fun so that's different.

My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.