Vince Neil Quotes

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

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'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

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.

When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.

I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians - whether they're friends and family or people I've just met - because I don't have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.

Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.

I didn't have any doubts about joining Arch Enemy.

I've always loved music. I've worked on music and written music, but, it wasn't until I was actually on the road full time with WWE that I put my first album out.

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

The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.

I wanted to play in bands and get signed by a record label and tour the world and stuff, but that never really worked out.

My band got signed in high school when I was 16, and we all dropped out of high school and went on tour. Then I quit the band because I was the manager, and I was doing everything, so I went solo.