Touring Exhaustion Quotes

That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.

I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

Hydroxycut keeps me going while on tour. It's a grind on the road, and I'm excited to be joining the team.

I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.

One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.

Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're twisted in a weird way where you need that in order to be a person still.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

I always loved touring in Pentatonix; really the only reason it was tough was the pace and no breaks.

I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it's not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It's a machine, and it's money, and you just get put on this indie rock cart, and it's embarrassing.

A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

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