Tour Preparation Quotes

My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it.

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

It's very hard to tour.

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.

Getting ready for a tour is a big process, and I enjoy every part of it.

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a time in a musician's life.

There's a club called Headliners in Chiswick where I do a lot of my warmups for tours. For me it's a nice 'big-small' room: it's a 300 seater, which feels small but you can still get big laughs.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

I've got my travelling, my packing, my after-show activities all down to a science. I used to not work out on tour; now I take a trainer with me. I do things to make sure that I can give the crowd my all, because that's what I'm all about.

I think touring is hard.

I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.

I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

I still get excited for band practice, like I love when we're about to go on tour and we all get together and practice. I'm so excited, it's like the first day of school. You check out everyone's new backpack.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

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.

I'm in the gym every day, Monday through Friday. And I train really hard to go out and do a tour. So that, basically, what I'm doing with my trainer is that I train harder in the gym than the amount of energy that I expend on the stage. So by the time I'm ready to go out on the road, doing a show is a whole lot easier.

Everybody thinks that touring is really glamourous, but I pretty much sit in a room all day. I have a sort of office where I do emails, and I go for a run, and then at the end of the night, I go to bed. It's not like some crazy party.

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

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