John Gourley Quotes

We have always been a touring band, and we love playing live.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

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've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

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

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

I think what AC/DC does best is play live. That's when everything comes together. Even after you make a studio album, when you go out and play live, that's when you learn what being in a band is all about.

Although I have been pretty vocal about hating touring, the only part of touring I don't like is being on the bus and bouncing around.

I think that my performances with Led Zeppelin got better with each performance and I think that our performances as Led Zeppelin Experience have also gotten better with each show.

We're known as a touring band, not a singles band.

When I go to do a show, it's my time; it's all about me. You've come to see me. You haven't come to see me if you're in an armchair watching a video. It's very distracting.

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

We love performing, we love touring.

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

I love to play gigs.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.