Hugh Masekela Quotes

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.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

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

When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

I do try to go home as much as possible after each show. I've got my own plane. I'm very fortunate.

Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think, for me, it's my happiest thing; I love moving around, and I have friends and family all over the place. It's kind of my time. It's almost like home. It's when I get to see everybody.

I'm on the road almost eight months of the year.

I think traveling as much as we do and being on the road, the craziest thing is probably having our own little tour bus.

When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I visited parts of the world that I'd never been to and found that I was spending maybe 30 days at home a year.

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.

Because of all the touring we do, our diets are all over the place.

Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.