Bootsy Collins Quotes

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love a show. I love an artist that can do all of it.

I have been touring since I got my first band in 1962, so there is no problem there. We are basically performing musicians, so that's what we do.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I've been touring now since about '68.

I'm just thankful for gigs.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.

I wanted to stop while we were still getting big hits. The only thing I miss is the actual performing.

Now, to be a mainstream act, you have to be firing on all cylinders on so many different platforms. You've got to have a social media voice. You've got to do promo on TV. You've got to tour everywhere.

We have not had a ton of innovation and marketing in the concert industry, much like the record industry. We have been a fairly old-school business compared to Coca-Cola and the big packaging/marketing companies.

It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We've got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It's an optical illusion device that we carry around.