Dee Snider Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

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

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 do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

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.

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

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

I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

When you tour as much as I do, you're always on the road, and you tend to gravitate toward cities where you're like, 'Every time I'm in that city, the shows are fun.'

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.

The band that I always wanted to tour with was Pantera, and we got to tour with them twice.

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

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

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.