Tour Merchandise Quotes

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

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.

Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' tour was incredible.

I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

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.

When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

You open up a lot of tours making nothing just for the fact that you need to start somewhere and get some exposure. When you start to headline your tours, all the money is in headlining, but there's no money in headlining small rooms.

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

I stay very much undercover and behind the scenes - most places I go, people don't know how important I am. But I will admit that my favorite piece of clothing to wear out is an old T-shirt from a Boston tour that does have a Boston logo. But that doesn't change anything.

My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.

I have four warehouses full of stuff. I have every boarding pass of every flight I've ever been on. I have all the old contracts that we had from all the clubs and concerts we played, every one of them, up from 1980. Guitar picks and amps - it goes on and on.

It's a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

The Big 4 tour was really great.

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!

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Being on tour is a giggle.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

By the time Guns n' Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the 'Use Your Illusion' albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.