George Strait Quotes

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

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

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.

It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.

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

I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

Most years, I do 70 or 80 concerts.

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.

Every year that I go out on tour, I think about all the craziest ideas that would be great to go out with, and I think, 'I should see if Jeff Beck wants to join my band for a month or something.'

We started 'Heaven And Earth' in 2016. That was probably the heaviest touring year of my whole life. We probably did almost 200 shows in 2016. We went into the studio, and I honestly didn't know what the album was going to be. So I just kind of started picking songs that I liked.

If I can still sing and still perform to my satisfaction, I don't mind touring.

I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.

I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.