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I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.

— Justin Vernon

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

— Jessie J

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

— David Bowie

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

— Mike Lowry

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.

— Kathy Mattea

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

— King Tuff

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

— Ziggy Marley

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

— Janis Ian

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

— Tommy Shaw

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Tift Merritt

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

— Oscar Peterson