Don Felder Quotes

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

Being on tour is a giggle.

I've been on the road since 1967.

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.

I don't really put cars in my videos because I'm always flying or on a tour bus.

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 hear bands say they don't know what country they are in at times. Now I understand because we sleep at weird times and are always in different places - but I'm not moaning. It's all fun.

I was doing back to back shows for four years.

I pretty much live on my tour bus.I do well around 300 shows a year. A lot of times I will do two shows a night.

After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

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

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

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

Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.