Allan Holdsworth Quotes

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

A lot of the world turns into checklists for me when I'm on the road. Like, OK, this person's alive, this person's fed, this person's good. Soundcheck is done. Everything becomes a checklist except for the actual show.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

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

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

I have a really good band, and just returned from a short tour in California. It hasn't always gone that well.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.