Tour Budgeting Quotes

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

It's very hard to tour.

See, I have to do my best because I am not as glamorous or as well-equipped like a Beyonce Knowles or Michael Jackson, where their band members are close to 100-150 people. They even have great equipment which is flown along with the artists. They have a budget of around $5 million pumped in to make their concerts a hit.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I think touring is hard.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.

I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, 'You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.' And I was like, 'Ooooh. That's how it works.'

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.

I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!

Being on tour is a giggle.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs.

We're playing small clubs and doing it all in a van. I have management, and they've done a good job of getting our tour plan together, but we're still having to go and rent the vehicles and all the little things you need to do. You really have to watch your budget.

When you're on tour, you know exactly what you're doing and what's required of you. There's a routine.