Jay DeMarcus Quotes

I think touring is hard.

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

I've been on the road since 1967.

I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.

I always want to be touring.

I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

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.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

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.

I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

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

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

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