Bjorn Ulvaeus 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.

I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.

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

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

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.

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

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.

I've asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don't understand it. But I don't understand a lot of things.

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.

Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

There are not many musicians from India who are working internationally in pop. My aim is to change that and show the world that we have so much more to offer.

We're known as a touring band, not a singles band.

Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.

I have always been trying to make music which appeals to global audience.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience. I really consider myself a troubadour privately and a song-plugger publicly.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.