Touring Quotes

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  Eddy Arnold

  Lonely, Being Lonely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt pressured by continuous touring.

  Andy Partridge

  Felt, Pressured

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• Touring is hard on the body.

  Eminem

  Body, Hard

  "Eminem speaks out in favour of gay marriage" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

  Deana Carter

  Europe, Nails, Firsts

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Philosophy, Healing, Men

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• People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

  Martin Yan

  Inspirational, Travel, Views

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Bikers

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

  Gary Hoey

  Dream, Guitar, Careers

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• I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

  George Harrison

  Music, Giving Up, Madness

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• 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.

  John Deacon

  Home, Wells, Studios

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• Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Egypt, Doors

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

  Jens Voigt

  Hurt, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

  IRIS MURDOCH (1965). “THE RED AND THE GREEN”

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• Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Should Have

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

  Kelly Osbourne

  True Friend, Being True

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• It never gets easier; you just go faster.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Greg LeMond, Mark Hom (2014). “The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance”, p.122, Academic Press

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• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Artist, Literature, World

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

  John F. Kennedy

  Simple, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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