“When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.” PeopleIfsWritingArtistStuffRecordsFocusedTouring Author:Rico Love
“It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.” IfsWritingYearsStillsI CanHardShowsCan DoRecordsHappenedYears AgoVansTouringCan Do Something Author:Sharon Van Etten
“By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out.” DoneTogetherRecordsSickHanging OutFourthFifthTouringReplacementsRehearsing Author:Paul Westerberg
“Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.” FeelsLongI CanImportantPlayHomeRecordsJourneyMusicianOriginalsRewardsIncrediblesFinishedStoresShirtsPacksTouringTrophiesThriftSuitcasesLong JourneyRecord StoresFleeceEmbarking Author:Nate Ruess
“I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.” RecordsBoringBoredTouring Author:Elton John
“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.” TryingYearsI CanIdeasWholeHelpingStoriesBrainHalfRecordsInvolvedDrinkFilledNotesNineGood IdeasConstructiveTouringNotebookGreat IdeaHalf A YearI Can Read Author:Ringo Starr
“A more interesting question is not 'Why did they break up?' but 'Would they have gotten back together?' ... There's always a chance we'd work together again, but I can't see us touring. I just see us making records.” I CanTogetherChanceInterestingMusicBreakRecordsMusic IsWorking TogetherTouringBack TogetherTogether Again Author:John Lennon
“I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.” ThinkingShouldLongDoneLastsLeftBreakTakenRecordsShould HaveGood ThingsFocusedFinishedBubblesTouring Author:Andrew Bird
“When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!” YearsMadeHomeNextBreakMillionsRecordsSawsHugeBabyMountainPropertySurpriseProfitSellingIceFoxesPalacesTouringMiamiCabinsUtahCobwebsMichael J Fox Author:Vanilla Ice