Phillip Phillips Quotes

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

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

Every band wants to play in every city. We all do.

And the live show is still our main thing.

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

I always want to be touring.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.