Bootsy Collins Quotes

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

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

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

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

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 wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers full of gear, and playing stadiums. In the '90s, that's what we did.

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

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

We love to make records, and we love to tour.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.