Kerry King Quotes

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

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.

When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these albums, and I get on the road. It's not really a radio-driven thing. I get on the road, and I see my fans, and I touch each and every last one of them.

The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.

You gotta do both. You've got to be on those big tours, and you've got to be in the clubs.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

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 tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

I'm reaching a huge audience. I'm doing what artists like Beyonce are doing in terms of selling out stadiums. The difference is my audience speaks Spanish.

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

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.

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.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

I'm getting to do, like, 11 stadium shows with Kenny Chesney... seriously - that's bucket list.

I spent six figures of my own money to get a tour bus and do a fan tour for my second album. I surprised fans at their houses, and we'd eat food and play video games.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.