David Longstreth Quotes

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

Wins and losses just blur into one as you move around the world playing matches.

I don't like to do the same songs every night for a week. I just... it's boring and tiring and frustrating basically.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is.

I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.