Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes

I am a touring artist - I get a kick out of it, like, a huge kick.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

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

I always want to be touring.

I was doing back to back shows for four years.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

And the live show is still our main thing.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

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.

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 had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.

We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.

We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a touring musician meant that you'd be gone a lot and that was going to make other things a lot harder, like having a family.

The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.