Brad Paisley Quotes

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

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

I've got a band that I tour with, and they're not session musicians; they're my friends.

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

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.

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.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

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.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

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

I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other.

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

Touring is a tough business.

I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

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.

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

I've been touring now since about '68.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

It seems effortless and fun, and obviously it's hard work, but we love road life.

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

A lot of bands live and breathe out of hotels. I just happen to be the one that lives on my bus. I have camped and RVed my entire life.