Maren Morris Quotes

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

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

I was doing back to back shows for four years.

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.

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

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

I always want to be touring.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

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

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family.

I don't actually like touring.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

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

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

Growing up, I played in different bands and did a lot of self-booked touring and traveling around, and my sister was driving us on tour, and we're playing for nobody and literally begging my friends that I went to high school with to buy tickets to our shows.